Gravel Hill Plantation (Allendale, South Carolina)

Gravel Hill Plantation
Location 3954 Augusta Stage Coach Road, Garnett, South Carolina, near Allendale, South Carolina
Coordinates 32°58′4″N 81°23′18″W / 32.96778°N 81.38833°W / 32.96778; -81.38833Coordinates: 32°58′4″N 81°23′18″W / 32.96778°N 81.38833°W / 32.96778; -81.38833
Area 7 acres (2.8 ha)
Built 1857 (1857)-1859
Built by Willingham, Benjamin
Architectural style Greek Revival
NRHP Reference # 76001688[1]
Added to NRHP May 28, 1976

Gravel Hill Plantation is a historic plantation house located near Allendale, Allendale County, South Carolina. It was built between 1857 and 1859, and is a two-story white frame Greek Revival style dwelling with two small wings on a raised basement. It has a gable roof and a one-story portico supported by four wooden square columns. It also has a balustraded piazza with five small columns on the east façade. Also on the property is a contributing two-story frame smokehouse.[2][3]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. Katharine N. McNulty and Thomas O. Lawton, Jr. (August 1975). "Gravel Hill Plantation" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved 4 March 2014.
  3. "Gravel Hill Plantation, Allendale County (off U.S. Hwy. 301, Allendale vicinity)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 4 March 2014.


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