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Dr. D. L. Smith’s Baby Hospital, Saluda, NC

Dr. D. L. Smith’s Baby Hospital, Saluda, NC – Greetings from the Past

In the early 1900s the death rate for babies was high. It was especially high in the South.

This was before antibiotics were available. There were few rural doctors and few pediatricians at all. Heat and humidity, flies, contaminated milk …

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Daniel Heyward Plantation

We took South Carolina Highway 462 home (from Hilton Head Island to Hendersonville, NC) and passed a road named Old House Road.

Soon after, we saw a historic marker for the tomb of Thomas Heyward, Jr. Look for it on …