Honors and Legacy
- 1989 - For her contributions to South Carolina's agriculture, Eliza Lucas Pinckney was the first woman to be inducted into the South Carolina Business Hall of Fame.
- 1793 - President George Washington served as a pallbearer at her funeral at St. Peter's Church in Philadelphia.
- 1753 - At an audience with the Dowager Princess of Wales in London, in Eliza's presence, little Lucas Pinckney presented the princess with a dress made of silk produced from Lucas plantations.
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