Special thanks to Sydney Whiteside, Library Assistant, Beaufort District Collection, Beaufort County Library for her excellent assistance in accessing key resources for this article. Henrietta Pollitzer, born in Bluffton, SC, married Edward Hartford, an heir to the A&P Grocery fortune, and later she married an Italian Prince. So, in a sense, she was "Bluffton's Gilded Age Princess". Henrietta Pollitzer (January 1, 1881 - June 3, 1948) was born in Bluffton, South Carolina, to

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