Roseville Plantation – Florence – Florence County

— 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