The Oaks historic home built in 1855 for Colonel Paul Hamilton, shaded by a Live Oak tree covered in Spanish Moss in the historic district of Beaufort, South Carolina. Hamilton’s father served as both governor of South Carolina from 1804 through 1806 and as United States Secretary of the Navy under President James Madison from 1809 until 1812.

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