Walnut Grove Plantation

(Museum near Lake Greenwood)


Website: discoversouthcarolina.com/products/251

County

State

South Carolina

Address

1200 Otts Shoals Road
Roebuck, SC 29376

Phone

(864) 576-6546

Latitude

34.82987

Longitude

-81.95512

Description

"Charles & Mary Moore established Walnut Grove on a 550-acre land grant about 1765.  These Scots-Irish immigrants raised ten children in the house they built and lived in for 40 years.  Mr. Moore relied on a dozen enslaved African Americans and his own large family to work his sizable farm.  During the American Revolution..."


~ SC Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism, DiscoverSouthCarolina.com


"The Walnut Grove house, outbuildings, and furnishings provide a fully documented picture of life and an example of social history in upcountry South Carolina prior to 1830.  The house itself is considered one of the finest remaining upcountry plantation houses of the period..."


~  South Carolina Dept. of Archives and History, National Register of Properties in South Carolina

 

 



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