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Andrew Jackson State Park
Site of park in U.S. state of South Carolina
Nearest city	Lancaster, SC
Coordinates	34°50′28″N 80°48′25″W / 34.841°N 80.807°W / 34.841; -80.807
Area	360 acres (145.7 ha)
Created	1952
Other information	Features include: a museum

Andrew Jackson State Park is a 360-acre (1.5 km) South Carolina state park established in 1952 to honor the only South Carolina-born president, Andrew Jackson, who was born nearby in 1767. The park is on U.S. Highway 521 about nine miles north of Lancaster, South Carolina. The park offers hiking, boating, camping, fishing and picnicking. There are 25 camping spaces with paved road access. Each space has water hookup and electricity. They are often full on weekends, but not during the week. Nearby is a 20-acre lake with an island in the middle and hiking paths all the way around it. There is abundant Wildlife.

The park's museum features exhibits about the boyhood life of U.S. President Andrew Jackson, who grew up in this region. Rooms depict Colonial period life, including a dining room, bedroom, textile room, and early tools and farm implements.

A notable park feature is a large bronze statue called Andrew Jackson, A Boy of The Waxhaws, sculpted by Anna Hyatt Huntington, that depicts a young Jackson astride a farm horse. There is a marker recognizing Jackson's birthplace that was donated by the Daughters of the American Revolution. The park also includes a replica of a late 18th-century one-room schoolhouse and an amphitheatre.

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v t e State Parks of South Carolina
Upstate	Caesars Head Croft Devils Fork Jones Gap Keowee-Toxaway Kings Mountain Lake Hartwell Musgrove Mill Oconee Oconee Station Paris Mountain Rose Hill Plantation Sadlers Creek Table Rock
Midlands	Aiken Andrew Jackson Baker Creek Barnwell Calhoun Falls Cheraw Chester Dreher Island Goodale H. Cooper Black Jr. Hamilton Branch Hickory Knob Lake Greenwood Lake Wateree Landsford Canal Lee Poinsett Redcliffe Plantation Rivers Bridge Santee Sesquicentennial
Coastal	Charles Towne Landing Colleton Colonial Dorchester Edisto Beach Givhans Ferry Hampton Plantation Huntington Beach Hunting Island Lake Warren Little Pee Dee Myrtle Beach Woods Bay

Protected areas of South Carolina

Federal

National Parks	Congaree
National Historic Sites and Historical Parks	Charles Pinckney NHS Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie NHP Ninety Six NHS Reconstruction Era NHP
National Military Parks and Battlefields	Cowpens NB Kings Mountain NMP
National Historic Trail	Overmountain Victory
National Forests	Francis Marion Sumter
National Wildlife Refuges	Cape Romain Carolina Sandhills Ernest F. Hollings ACE Basin Pinckney Island Santee Savannah Tybee Waccamaw
National Estuarine Research Reserves	Ashepoo Combahee Edisto Basin North Inlet-Winyah Bay
Wilderness Areas	Cape Romain Congaree Ellicott Rock Hell Hole Swamp Little Wambaw Swamp Wambaw Creek Wambaw Swamp
Wild and Scenic River	Chattooga River

State

State Parks	Aiken Andrew Jackson Baker Creek Barnwell Caesars Head Calhoun Falls Cheraw Chester Colleton Croft Devils Fork Dreher Island Edisto Beach Givhans Ferry Goodale H. Cooper Black Jr. Memorial Field Trial and Recreation Area Hamilton Branch Hickory Knob Hunting Island Huntington Beach Jones Gap Keowee-Toxaway Kings Mountain Lake Greenwood Lake Hartwell Lake Warren Lake Wateree Landsford Canal Lee Little Pee Dee Myrtle Beach Oconee Paris Mountain Poinsett Sadlers Creek Santee Sesquicentennial Table Rock Woods Bay
State Historic Sites	Charles Towne Landing Colonial Dorchester Hampton Plantation Musgrove Mill Oconee Station Redcliffe Plantation Rivers Bridge Rose Hill Plantation
State Forests	Harbison Manchester Poe Creek Sand Hills Wee Tee
Heritage Preserves	Aiken Gopher Tortoise Altamaha Towne Ashmore Bald Rock Bear Branch Belvue Springs Bennett's Bay Blackwell Botany Bay Plantation Brasstown Creek Bunched Arrowhead Buzzard Island Buzzard Roost Capers Island Cartwheel Bay Cathedral Bay Chestnut Ridge Childsbury Towne Clear Creek Congaree Bluffs Congaree Creek Crosby Oxypolis Daws Island Ditch Pond Dungannon Plantation Eastatoe Creek Eva Russell Chandler Fort Frederick Fort Lamar Forty Acre Rock Glassy Mountain Gopher Branch Great Pee Dee River Green's Shell Enclosure Henderson Janet Harrison High Pond Laurel Fork Lewis Ocean Bay Lighthouse Inlet Little Pee Dee Little Pee Dee State Park Bay Long Branch Bay Longleaf Pine Lynchburg Savanna Nipper Creek Old Island Pacolet River Peachtree Rock Peters Creek Poinsett Bridge Rock Hill Blackjacks Savage Bay Savannah River Bluffs Segars-McKinnon Shealy's Pond South Bluff St. Helena Sound Stevens Creek Stoney Creek Battery Stumphouse Mountain Tillman Sand Ridge Tom Yawkey Wildlife Center Victoria Bluff Heritage Preserve Waccamaw River Wadakoe Mountain Wateree Watson-Cooper Woods Bay
Wildlife Management Areas	Bear Island Belfast Bonneau Ferry Campbell's Crossroads Canal Causey Tract Cliff Pitts Clinton Reservoir Tract Crackerneck Donnelley Draper Edisto River Fant's Grove Gray Court Tract Hamilton Ridge Hatchery Herbert Kirsh Hickory Top James L. Mason James Ross Jim Timmerman Keowee Landsford Canal Forest Liberty Hill Marsh McBee McCalla McConnells Tract Moultrie Hunt Unit Nine Times Oak Lea Palachucola Pee Dee Station Samworth Santee Coastal Reserve Santee Cooper Santee Cooper Tract Santee Dam Santee-Delta Thurmond Tract Turtle Island Webb Wild Turkey Woodbury Worth Mountain
Seabird Sanctuaries	Bay Point Shoal Bird Key - Stono Crab Bank Deveaux Bank Joiner Bank North Santee Bar

v t e Andrew Jackson
7th President of the United States (1829–1837) Senator from Tennessee (1797–1798, 1823–1825) Federal Military Commissioner of Florida (1821) U.S. Representative for Tennessee at-large (1796–1797)
Life	Slave-trading career Violent incidents Fatal duel Legal affairs Plantations: Poplar Grove Hunter's Hill The Hermitage
Colonization	Creek War Fort Strother Battle of Talladega Battles of Emuckfaw and Enotachopo Creek Battle of Horseshoe Bend Treaty of Fort Jackson Battle of Pensacola Arrest of Dominic Hall and Louis Louaillier Battle of New Orleans Jackson's Military Road Treaty of Doak's Stand Treaty of Tuscaloosa Jackson Purchase Treaty of Turkeytown First Seminole War Arbuthnot and Ambrister incident Adams–Onís Treaty Treaty of Moultrie Creek
Politics	1824 United States presidential election "Corrupt Bargain" 1828 United States presidential election 1828 Jackson campaign Coffin Handbills 1832 United States presidential election 1832 Democratic National Convention Establishment of the U.S. Democratic Party History of the U.S. Whig Party Anti-Jacksonian Party
Presidency	First inauguration Second inauguration State of the Union 1829 1830 1831 1832 1833 1834 1835 1836 Judicial appointments Taney Court Executive actions Vetoes Pardons Foreign policy First Sumatran expedition Snow Riot Assassination attempt Governance: Spoils system Petticoat affair Kitchen Cabinet Indian policy: Indian removal Indian Removal Act Trail of Tears Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek Treaty of New Echota Treaty of Pontotoc Creek Treaty of Payne's Landing Treaty of Chicago Treaty of Cusseta Black Hawk War Second Creek War Second Seminole War Supreme Court decisions: Cherokee Nation v. Georgia Worcester v. Georgia Economic policy: Bank War Senate censure Banking in the Jacksonian Era Hard money Specie Circular Maysville Road veto Nullification crisis Tariff of 1832 Ordinance of Nullification Proclamation to the People of South Carolina Force Bill Tariff of 1833 Pet banks Panic of 1837
Family	Rachel Jackson Marriage controversy Andrew Jackson Jr. Acting First Ladies: Emily Donelson Sarah Yorke Jackson Wards: Edward G. W. Butler Andrew Jackson Donelson Daniel Smith Donelson A. J. Hutchings Indigenous "adoptees": Theodore Charley Lyncoya Jackson Poll (parrot)
Slavery	Jackson and slavery Gilbert Alfred Jackson Hannah Jackson
Public image	List of memorials to Andrew Jackson January 8 (holiday) "Half Horse and Half Alligator" "King Andrew the First" (1832) Portraits of Andrew Jackson Statues of Andrew Jackson Films about Andrew Jackson Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson U.S. military vessels named after Jackson Jackson Square (New Orleans) Andrew Jackson State Park (South Carolina) Andrew Jackson Centre (Ireland) Jefferson–Jackson Dinner Black Jack stamp USD$20 Jackson on other U.S. currency Confederate States dollar
Historiography	Jacksonian democracy Bibliography of Andrew Jackson Robert V. Remini § Andrew Jackson American Lion
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