Basic Information

• Location – Pendleton, Anderson County

  Located on SC 88, about three miles east of Pendleton
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – Gibbes, Broyles, Latta, Pelzer Place
  

• Current status – Owned by Pendleton Historic Foundation and operated as a house museum.
  

Timeline

• 1820 – Earliest known date of existence

• 1828 – House built by Lewis Ladson Gibbes of Charleston
  

• 1837 – Plantation bought by Dr. O. R. Broyles
  

• 1851 – Plantation bought by James T. Latta of York
  

• 1862 – Plantation bought by Mr. Robert Adger, owner of the Sword Gate House in Charleston
  

• 1865 – Adger's daughter Clarissa and her husband O. A. Bowen lived in the house with their son Allen until this year.
  

• After 1865 – Adger's daughter Sallie and her husband William D. Warren lived at the plantation.
  

  It subsequently passed to Francis J. Pelzer (owner of Pelzer Mills and founder of the Town of Pelzer), then to John Linley of Anderson, and finally to Frederick W. Symmes of Greenville. Linley was the last resident owner. Upon his death, Ashtabula was purchased by Mead Corporation for a tree farm.
  

• 1961 – Mead Corporation gave the house and ten acres to the Foundation for Historical Restoration in the Pendleton Area.
  

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – ?

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Robert and Jane Eliza Fleming Adger (1862); O. A. and Clarissa Bowen (through 1865); Dr. O. R. and Sarah Broyles (1837); Foundation for Historical Restoration in the Pendleton Area (1961); Lewis Ladson and Maria Henrietta Drayton Gibbes (1828); James T. and Angela Lot Latta (1851); Linley; Mead Corporation; Francis J. Pelzer; Frederick W. Symmers; Taliaferro; William D. and Sallie Warren
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

• National Register of Historic Places
  – Nomination form - submitted in 1971 by Linda Lake - requires Adobe Reader
  – Photographs, architectural overview
  

• Ashtabula Plantation
  

Print Resources

• Initial references: 1, 17

• South Carolina Highway Historical Marker Guide (Columbia, SC: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 1998), p. 13-14.
  

Contact Information

• Pendleton Historic Foundation
  PO Box 444
  Pendleton, SC 29670
  

  Telephone: 864-646-7249