Basic Information

• Location – Pendleton, Anderson County

  Located on Woodburn Road off US 76

• Origin of name –

• Other names – Frank Place

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

Timeline

• 1800 – Earliest known date of existence

• 1832 – House built by Charles Cotesworth Pinckney

• 1852 – House enlarged by Reverend Dr. John B. Adger

• 1882 – Jane Edna Harris Hunter was born on Woodburn Farm; she later founded the Phyllis Wheatley Association.
  

• 1966 – Deeded to the Foundation for Historic Restoration of the Pendleton Area
  

Land

• Number of acres – 600

• Primary crop –

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Reverend Dr. John B. Adger (1852); Joseph Ellison Adger (1859); Bailey; Bennett; Elliott; John Franks; Hunter; McCord; Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1830); Augustine T. Smythe (1882); David Taylor (1848)
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves –

Buildings

Web Resources

• National Register of Historic Places
  – Nomination form - submitted in 1970 by Ben Hornsby - requires Adobe Reader
  – Photographs, architectural overview
  

• Woodburn Plantation

Print Resources

• Initial references: 1, 4, 17, 44

• South Carolina Highway Historical Marker Guide (Columbia, SC: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 1998), p. 14-15.
  

Contact Information

• Pendleton Historic Foundation
  PO Box 444
  Pendleton, SC 29670
  

  Telephone: 864-646-7249

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