— Erwinton Plantation © National Register of Historic Places —

Basic Information

• Location – Bull Pond, Allendale County

  Located off SC 3, south of US 301
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – Erwin House, Erwinton Plantation and Hunting Club

• Current status – Privately owned

Timeline

• 1799 – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

  This house was destroyed by fire.

• 1828 – Present house was constructed by Dr. William Robinson Erwin (National Register, p. 3)

  This house was unoccupied after the Civil War but remained in the Erwin family.

• 1955 – Purchased by Houston Rawls. Mr. Rawls updated the house and used it as his winter home (National Register, p. 3)

• 1960s – Rawls sold to Walter S. Montgomery, R.Z. Cates, and McFarland Cates who use it as a hunt club (National Register, p. 3)

Land

• Number of acres – Approximately 430 in the 1800s; 5 acres in 1975 (National Register, p. 2)

• Primary crop – Cotton (National Register, p. 2)

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Walter S. Montgomery, R.Z. Cates, and McFarland Cates (1930s-); Dr. William Robinson Erwin; Erwin Family (?-1955); Clarke Howell; Walter S. Montgomery; Houston Rawls (1955-1960s)
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• The house is a one and one-half story, clapboard construction (National Register, p. 2).
  

Web Resources

• National Register of Historic Places
  – Nomination form - PDF - submitted in 1975
  – Photographs, architectural overview
  

• Brief history of Erwinton Plantation - Click here
  

Print Resources

• Claude Henry Neuffer, editor, Names in South Carolina, Volume I through 30 (Columbia, SC: The State Printing Company)
   Order Names in South Carolina, Volumes I-XII, 1954-1965
   Order Names in South Carolina, Index XIII-XVIII