From Wikipedia.
I have been writing a lot about the flight of Confederate President Jefferson Davis at the end of the Civil War in my naval blog and have come across this place numerous times. I didn't know anything about its connection before this, so did some further research.
Abbeville has the distinction of being the birth place and death place of the Confederacy.
On November 20, 1860, a meeting was held in Abbeville at the site now called "Secession Hall" to launch South Carolina's secession movement. One month later, the state became the first to secede. It is also considered to be the birthplace of noted states rights mover and former U.S. vice president John C. Calhoun, who was born on a nearby farm.
At the end of the war, President Davis entered Abbeville and spent a night at the home of his friend Armistead Burt. On May 2nd, in the front parlor of what is now called the Burt-Stark Mansion which still stands, Davis officially acknowledged the dissolution of the Confederate government.
A Beginning and An End. --Old Secesh
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