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Westover of Woodstock( The Lucy Holcombe-Pickens Home )
Built in the early 1800s, this home is also known as the Lucy Holcombe Pickens House. Records
show that this house was purchased in 1829 as an "old house" by Colonel Philemon Holcombe, a
Revolutionary War comrade of General Marquis de Lafayette. Lafayette was made godfather to
Beverly Lafayette Holcombe, Philemon's son.
Westover of Woodstock was the home of Lucy Holcombe, born in 1832 in La Grange. After her
marriage to Francis W. Pickens, Governor of South Carolina during the Civil War, Lucy's
portrait was put on the Confederate one-dollar note of June 2, 1861, as well as three different
one-hundred-dollar Confederate notes. She was the only woman so honored by the Confederacy,
which earned her the sobriquet "Queen of the Confederacy." After Lucy's parents moved in 1849
to Texas, they retained the property in La Grange and used it as a summer home. The house was
later sold and used as a dormitory for the La Grange Female College, located then just next door
to the east.