WAL-MART WANTS TO MOVE 200 YEAR-OLD HOUSE TO MAKE ROOM FOR SHOPPING CENTER in Ballentine, S.C.

Wal-Mart gives $50,000 to move historic house [The State (S.C.)]

Wal-Mart has donated $50,000 to help with the moving and restoration of a historic house on the site of a future shopping center in the Ballentine area.

The funds will help the Palmetto Trust for Historic Preservation save the Lindler house, which dates to the late 1700s. Palmetto Trust also got a $35,000 grant from the Richland County Conservation Commission.

Wal-Mart will be the major tenant of the shopping center being built by Bright-Meyers Development. Bright-Meyers agreed to donate the house and one-fifth acre of land to Palmetto Trust, but the house needed to be moved about 60 feet to make room for the shopping center entrance.

Posted by Joel Nezianya on Wednesday, June 11, 2008