 Her daughter, Carola Sanford-Dow fulfilled this wish and in 1957 the Henry Shelton Sanford Memorial Library and Museum was built to house the books, papers, and decorative arts collection of Gen. Sanford.The museum was expanded in 1973 and again in 1993, at which time the name was changed to the Sanford Museum.He also appears in Mario Vargas Llosa's Nobel Prize–winning novel, "The Dream of the Celt".