Tanglewood Plantation
Tanglewood Plantation | |
Location | Southeast of Lynchburg on South Carolina Highway 341, near Lynchburg, South Carolina |
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Coordinates | 34°01′55″N 80°01′14″W / 34.03194°N 80.02056°WCoordinates: 34°01′55″N 80°01′14″W / 34.03194°N 80.02056°W |
Area | 10 acres (4.0 ha) |
Built | c. 1850 |
Built by | Rev. William H. Smith |
Architectural style | Greek Revival |
NRHP reference No. | 77001229[1] |
Added to NRHP | September 22, 1977 |
Tanglewood Plantation, also known as the Ellison Durant Smith House, is a historic plantation house located at Lynchburg, Lee County, South Carolina. It was built about 1850, and is a two-story, Greek Revival style clapboard house. It features a two-story pedimented front portico supported by four square columns on freestanding brick piers. A two-story projecting wing was added to the west façade in 1915, as well as a kitchen ell alteration to the south (rear) façade. Outbuildings include a pine clapboard kitchen building, a round-cut log constructed smokehouse, and a one-room schoolhouse. Tanglewood was the home of Ellison Durant "Cotton Ed" Smith, United States Senator from 1908 to 1944, and , Bishop of the Methodist Conference from 1902 until 1906.[2][3]
Tanglewood was the birthplace of the educationalist John Andrew Rice.[4]
The primary crop grown at Tanglewood was cotton; a large number of African-Americans were enslaved there, including the ancestors of political activist Briahna Joy Gray.[5][6]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.[1]
References[]
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Kappy McNulty and Ruth Rhyne (September 1976). "Tanglewood Plantation" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved 1 June 2014.
- ^ "Tanglewood Plantation, Lee County (S.C. Hwy. 341, Lynchburg vicinity)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 1 June 2014.
- ^ Edgar, Walter B. (September 5, 2006). The South Carolina Encyclopedia. University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 9781570035982 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Tanglewood Plantation - Lynchburg, Lee County, South Carolina SC". south-carolina-plantations.com.
- ^ @briebriejoy (3 March 2019). "This is the plantation where my great grandmother's family, the Durants, were enslaved" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- Plantation houses in South Carolina
- Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
- Greek Revival houses in South Carolina
- Houses completed in 1850
- Houses in Lee County, South Carolina
- National Register of Historic Places in Lee County, South Carolina
- African-American history of South Carolina
- Pee Dee South Carolina Registered Historic Place stubs