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°WCoordinates: 32°58′4″N 81°23′18″W / 32.96778°N 81.38833°W
Area 7 acres (2.8 ha)
Built 1857-1859
Built by Willingham, Benjamin
Architectural style Greek Revival
Governing body Private
NRHP Reference # 76001688[1]
Added to NRHP May 28, 1976

Gravel Hill Plantation is a historic plantation home 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. 1.0 1.1 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2010-07-09.
  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.