Arcadia Plantation, originally known as Prospect Hill Plantation, is a historic plantation house located near Georgetown, Georgetown County, South Carolina. The main portion of the house was built about 1794, as a two-story clapboard structure set upon a raised brick basement in the late-Georgian style. In 1906 Captain Isaac Edward Emerson, the "Bromo-Seltzer King" from Baltimore, purchased the property. Two flanking wings were added in the early 20th century. A series of terraced gardens extend from the front of the house toward the Waccamaw River. Also on the property is a large two-story guest house (c. 1910), tennis courts, a bowling alley, stables, five tenant houses and a frame church. The property also contains two cemeteries and other plantation-related outbuildings.[2][3]
Arcadia Plantation | |
 Front facade of Arcadia Plantation. | |
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| Location | 5 miles (8 km) east of Georgetown off U.S. Route 17, near Georgetown, South Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 33°23′01″N 79°13′25″W / 33.38361°N 79.22361°W |
| Area | 90 acres (36 ha) |
| Built | 1794 |
| Architectural style | Georgian |
| NRHP reference No. | 78002509[1] |
| Added to NRHP | January 3, 1978 |
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Kappy McNulty and Kathy Hendrix (March 1977). "Arcadia Plantation" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved 7 July 2012.
- ^ "Arcadia Plantation, Georgetown County (off U.S. Hwy. 17, Waccamaw Neck)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 7 July 2012.
External links
edit- Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. SC-463, "Arcadia Plantation, U.S. Highway 17 vicinity, Georgetown, Georgetown County, SC", 13 photos, 2 photo caption pages
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