Ernest L. Hazelius House is a historic home located at Lexington,

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. It was built about 1830, and is a one-story, rectangular frame dwelling with a hall and parlor plan and four small bedrooms across the rear. It was the home of Ernest L. Hazelius, a clergyman of the

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, academician, philosopher, author, and educator. The house was also the location where the traveling evangelist Charlie Tillman wrote down the song "

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" after hearing African-American citizens singing it. It was listed on the

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in 1973 and became a part of the Lexington County Museum in 1974, where it serves as the museum's tour office.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina Houses completed in 1830 Houses in Lexington County, South Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Lexington County, South Carolina 1830 establishments in South Carolina {{LexingtonCountySC-NRHP-stub