Roseville Plantation - Florence Florence County South Carolina SC

Roseville Plantation – Florence – Florence County



Roseville Plantation 1997 - Florence County, South Carolina
— Roseville Plantation • National Register of Historic Places —

Basic Information

  • Location – Florence, Florence County

    3636 N. Williston Road (Old Georgetown Road)

  • Origin of name – From the confederate rosebushes that lined the long drive. There are still a few of the bushes on the side of the house.

  • Other names – ?

  • Current status – Privately owned

Timeline

  • ? – Earliest known date of existence

  • 1771 – House built the Dewitt family (1).

  • 1821 – Richard Brockinton purchased the plantation from Harris Dewitt and Nathaniel S. McCall (1).

  • 1831 or 1832 – The original house burned (1).

  • 1835 – Brockinton built a house using hand-hewn construction (1).

  • 1840-1843 – Richard Brockinton died sometime during this period and his widow, Mary Hart Brockinton, inherited Roseville (1).

  • 1851-1853 – Mary died leaving the plantation to her nephew, Peter Samuel Bacot. Peter and his wife, Anna Jane White Bacot, had been living at Roseville before Mary's death (1).

  • 1864 – Peter died from yellow fever and left his estate to be divided equally between his six children as Anna had proceeded him in death (1).

  • 1870 – Peter's son, Peter Brockinton Bacot, owned four of the six shares of Roseville (1).

  • 1877 – Peter and Anna's eldest daughter, Ada White Bacot, and her third husband, James E.H. Clarke, returned to Roseville to oversee the plantation's operations (1).

  • ? – Ada and James' son, Thomas Alfred Clarke, inherited Roseville and continued farming the land. Thomas expanded the crops to include tobacco (1).

  • ? – James Henry Clarke owned Roseville (1).

  • 1948 – Roseville was sold outside of the Clarke family (1).

  • ? – Carl and Eleanor Tucker purchased Roseville (1).

Land

  • Number of acres – 1,200 in 1850; 13.5 acres in 1997 (1)

    There is an oak-lined avenue that leads to the house (1).

  • Primary crops – Cotton, rice, Indian corn, peas, beans, sweet potatoes, and tobacco in the 1900s (1)

Owners

  • Chronological list – Harris Dewitt and Nathaniel S. McCall (?-1821); Richard Brockinton (1821-1843); Mary Hart Brockinton (1843-1853); Peter Samuel Bacot (1853-1864); Peter Brockinton Bacot (1870-?); Thomas Alfred Clarke; James Henry Clarke; Carl and Eleanor Tucker

Slaves

  • Number of slaves – Over 100 in 1850 (1)

Buildings

  • There is a two-story frame house, garage building, and old barn currently on the property (1)

References & Resources

  1. National Register of Historic Places
    Nomination form - PDF - submitted in 1997
    Photographs, architectural overview

  2. 30-15 Plantation File, held by the South Carolina Historical Society
    –  Research Guide





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