The City of Travelers Rest is currently fundraising to bring The Dicey Langston Heritage Garden to life.
“The garden will serve as a living classroom,” its website says. “Celebrating heritage, cultivating curiosity, and growing a shared vision for the future.”
Laodicea “Dicey” Langston Springfield, the project’s namesake who will have a statue in the garden, was born in 1766 in Ninety Six before living in Travelers Rest. She’s a celebrated Revolutionary-era heroine known for her work as a spy. There are plans for an immersive spy hunt that follows in her footsteps during the war.
Signs around the park will also showcase our nation’s Charters of Freedom (the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights), and the garden will highlight native plants.
To help bring that vision to life, the City of Travelers Rest is hosting a fundraising dinner at Michelin-recommended Topsoil on Wednesday, May 6 from 6:30 to 9 p.m.
