James Hutcheson was born on the last Sabbath of April in 1793 at Duharrick, Manor of Ashfield, County Cavan, Ireland. He sailed for America from Dublin on March 26, 1818 and arrived in New York on May 4th. In 1819, after teaching school in Orange County, New York, he went to Charleston, South Carolina and worked as a clerk there before moving into Georgia. He married Sarah Pickens Henry in Coweta County June 22, 1829. About 1832, James moved his family to a large tract of land ten miles north of Newnan in what was then Campbell County (now Fulton County). The home he built at County Line was an unpretentious, but comfortable house. The Belgian horticulturist, P. J. Berkmans, was hired to design the Hutcheson garden which included flower beds of geometic patterns outlined by hedges of clipped boxwood. The yard was planted with cedar trees and magnolias and included flowering shrubs of many varieties. James Hutcheson's wife, Sarah, died April 3, 1852.
James Hutcheson was born on the last Sabbath of April in 1793 at Duharrick, Manor of Ashfield, County Cavan, Ireland. He sailed for America from Dublin on March 26, 1818 and arrived in New York on May 4th. In 1819, after teaching school in Orange County, New York, he went to Charleston, South Carolina and worked as a clerk there before moving into Georgia. He married Sarah Pickens Henry in Coweta County June 22, 1829. About 1832, James moved his family to a large tract of land ten miles north of Newnan in what was then Campbell County (now Fulton County). The home he built at County Line was an unpretentious, but comfortable house. The Belgian horticulturist, P. J. Berkmans, was hired to design the Hutcheson garden which included flower beds of geometic patterns outlined by hedges of clipped boxwood. The yard was planted with cedar trees and magnolias and included flowering shrubs of many varieties. James Hutcheson's wife, Sarah, died April 3, 1852.
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