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A new tenant that specializes in Southern goods and apparel looks to be moving into a Louisville mall.

Palmetto Moon, a boutique chain based in South Carolina, has filed plans for a spot in Mall St. Matthews at 5000 Shelbyville Road. The store carries brands like YETI, Simply Southern, Vineyard Vines, Local Boy Outfitters, Columbia, Southern Marsh, Patagonia, and more, its website said.

The Louisville Metro Planning & Design filing said the store will be moving into an 8,314-square-foot space in the mall. It will be investing about $550,000 in the renovation, which includes new fixtures, new lighting, new paint, floor finishes and interior wall partitions.

Mall St. Matthews is owned by Chicago-based Brookfield Properties. I’ve reached out to Palmetto Moon and Brookfield Properties, but have not heard back. This story could be updated.

Palmetto Moon was founded in 2002 as a kiosk in Citadel Mall in Charleston, South Carolina. Its website said it now has 37 locations in South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Tennessee.

Last week, Louisville Business First reported a home-goods retailer is closing one of its Louisville area locations. The Clarksville, Indiana, location of Tuesday Morning will be shutting its doors, although the exact closing date is unclear.

Brookfield Properties owns Oxmoor Center as well. That mall is seeing various new tenant announcements after the recent opening of Topgolf.

Puttshack, a tech-infused mini-golf course, will be overtaking the former Old Navy at Oxmoor Center. The 25,000-square-foot venue comes from the founders of Topgolf.

In October, I reported Sandbox VR, a virtual reality gaming company, submitted plans to move into Oxmoor Center. The entertainment venue offers an immersive VR experience for groups of up to six where players can see and interact with each other within the game.

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FORT MOTTE — Lovers of history gathered at a hilltop near the Congaree River to remember a Revolutionary War battle that might have turned on one woman’s sense of patriotism and sacrifice.

The gathering in Calhoun County on May 15 focused on the Battle of Fort Motte when a British-held fortified home, which held key supplies for their campaign to subdue inland South Carolina, was taken by Patriot troops.

The newly built home belonged to Rebecca Motte, who had been displaced just before the battle in May 1781. Motte not only told Patriot forces that they had permission to set fire to her home to smoke the British out, but she even provided metal arrows that could help set it ablaze.

British troops, seeing the house afire, were forced to surrender but managed to douse the flames before the home was destroyed.

Motte’s stance was in line with her long support for the American Revolution and typified how Patriot women were eager to help where they could, said Margaret F. Pickett, author of a soon-to-be-published book, “Rebecca Brewton Motte: American Patriot and Successful Rice Planter.”

“These were women who wanted to serve their country, and when an opportunity presented itself, they were going to take advantage of it,” Pickett said.

About 150 people heard from Pickett and archaeologists about the history that has been uncovered at the privately owned site and the significance of the victory there.

One year before the battle, the British captured Charleston and Camden, giving them strong bases on South Carolina’s coast and inland. Motte, recently widowed, moved her family from occupied Charleston to land she had inherited overlooking the Congaree.

A series of Patriot victories across the state, including at Fort Motte, would weaken British control in the months before George Washington’s victory at Yorktown in Virginia would ensure independence.

“Rebecca Motte is a heroine of the American Revolution,” said Dianne Culbertson, a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution service organization who came to the battlefield tour. “It’s just wonderful to stand at one of these sites,” she said.

The many battlefields of the American Revolution in South Carolina are opportunities to tell the stories of the patriotism of the country’s founders, men and women, Culbertson said.

Women had to keep families together and run farms while men were off at battle, she said.

The battle site now is an open field with a historical marker; the house burned down in the first few decades after the war.

Archaeological digs there have unearthed hundreds of items that tell the story of the battle, including musket ammunition and a fire arrow, the type of projectile that might have been responsible for the fortified house catching fire.

Digs at the site have unearthed everything from the configuration of the house and its British-built walls to the location of Patriot trenches, dug to safely get troops close enough to attack the defenses, said Steven Smith, a University of South Carolina archaeology professor.

Sources from the time and archeological research have created a much more detailed picture of the events of the siege and battle, Smith said.

Luther Wannamaker, whose family has owned the land where the house once stood for the past century, said they had refused requests to develop the property and instead cleaned up the site.

“When I came here, that monument was on its side,” Wannamaker said.

He has preserved it and invited Smith to do archeological research as part of his own curiosity.

“What I’m into is learning the truth about history,” he said.

The immediate aftermath of the surrender of the house by British forces in May 1781 shows how the American Revolution was both a courtly affair and sometimes a brutal civil war.

To show her hospitality, Motte hosted a dinner for both British and American officers at the nearby house where she had taken shelter after being evicted.

The cordial meal was interrupted by news: the Patriot forces had hanged three Loyalists — Americans who fought for the British — near the battle site.

A clothing retailer is set to open in Mall St. Matthews.

Rose & Remington filed plans to Louisville Metro Planning & Design in February to open in the mall at 5000 Shelbyville Road. The store carries women’s clothing, jewelry, shoes and more.

The filing shows the space will total nearly 3,600 square feet in the mall. I’ve reached out to Rose & Remington for more information about the new location, and this story could be updated.

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The boutique was founded in 2013 in Lebanon, Ohio, by Kristin Ponchot and her mother, Dee Alexander, according to the Cincinnati Business Courier, Louisville Business First's sister publication. The store name comes from the middle names of Ponchot’s children.

The store has over 20 locations in Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, Michigan, Tennessee and Indiana. Along with the new Louisville store, a new location is coming to Paducah, Kentucky.

Rose & Remington isn’t the only new clothing store coming to the mall. I reported in December Palmetto Moon, a retailer based in South Carolina, filed plans to open at Mall St. Matthews. The store carries brands like YETI, Simply Southern, Vineyard Vines, Local Boy Outfitters, Columbia, Southern Marsh, Patagonia and more.

Last week, Simpsonville, Kentucky-based Shady Rays announced it plans to open a brick-and-mortar location in Oxmoor Center. It will be the brand's fourth brick-and-mortar location, taking up over 1,500 square feet in the space adjacent to Anthropologie near Von Maur on the shopping center's first level.

Both Mall St. Matthews and Oxmoor Center are owned by Chicago-based Brookfield Properties.

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The Regional Medical Center gives more information about a potential partnership with MUSC, and allows residents to ask questions.

ST MATTHEWS, S.C. — In Orangeburg and Calhoun counties, residents say access to healthcare has been a big problem for years.

The Regional Medical Center, that serves four rural counties in the area hosted a town hall meeting Wednesday to address community concerns about healthcare disparities.

Keisha Watson has lived in Calhoun for 40 years and says finding a place to get medical care has always been difficult.

“A lot of people don't have transportation so they're depending upon EMS to pick them up," Watson explained. "Sometimes they are stressed depending on the nature of someone's health condition and how far away they are."

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At the last town hall meeting in June, the hospital encouraged people not to go to the Emergency Room, explaining that a large chunk of patients that come in, see them for routine medical care and not actual emergencies.

The hospital asked people in the community go to Express Care or see a town Clinic, like Santee Care. However, News 19 discovered that Express care and the Santee Clinic were each closed for more than a week in August, and several days in July as well.

Sabrina Robinson, the CEO of Operations for RMC explained that the closures are due to staffing shortages.

“We've lost some providers in those locations, but now we're still looking for a provider in our Santee location, but at Express Care we just hired our full-time," Robinson stated.

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The hospital says if care is needed on a day that the recommended clinics are closed, patients should either use the hospitals telehealth system or find a Primary Care Physician outside of RMC to see them.

RMC hopes that these will not be the only care options for long. CEO David Southerland says that a partnership with MUSC will hopefully farm a chance for their more rural patients.

“We hope the program will help add more nurses and people to help provide care to these communities that so desperately need it,” said Southerland.

The partnership still has to be approved by both Calhoun and Orangeburg County before anything can happen.

There will be more community discussions before approval as well, with another Town Hall on September 8.

The playground will be located at the corner of Butler Street and Richland Avenue. The land was formerly used for tennis courts that became dilapidated.

ST MATTHEWS, S.C. — Construction of a new playground is underway in the Town of St. Matthews. The project is being spearheaded by the Calhoun County Parks and Recreation Department.

“I think it’s gonna be a great addition for us," said local parent Joseph Fairey.

There will be slides, monkey bars, and swing sets for children to enjoy, and picnic tables for families. According to the Calhoun County Department of Parks and Recreation, this project has been a few years in the making.

The playground will be located at the corner of Butler Street and Richland Avenue. The land was formerly used for tennis courts that became dilapidated over the years.

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“You have a lot of people in this area, in St. Matthews that are looking for things to do with their kids. On a nice day like this, this would be a perfect day to bring your kids out, use the playground, get rid of all of that energy that these kids have after a long day of school," said parks and recreation director Zachary Tarrant.

Joseph Fairey is a local parent in St. Matthews. His daughters are active in Calhoun County sports programs.

"I remember growing up this was a tennis court and I had a lot of good memories out there," he said, "Over the years it had just kind of become not used and not functional for the community.”

He moved back to St. Matthews last year after living in Columbia for a while.

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“This is a great family, friendly community but not having a playground is obviously something we needed. Just excited for my kids. I’ve got a one, a four, and a seven year old so obviously we’ll be using it a lot and lots of families that are out here will take advantage of it and it’ll bring the community together," said Fairey.

The park is being funded by a grant from the South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism, in addition to money from the Calhoun County penny sales tax. It's expected to open at the end of May.