Basic Information

• Location – Cambridge, Edgefield District, Greenwood County

  Located south of Cambridge off SC 246
  

• Origin of name –

• Other names –

• Current status –

Timeline

• 1849 – Earliest known date of existence

  Whitfield Brooks moved to the property and occupied a small house that was proabaly used for the overseer. He later bought and moved a small house to the property and joined it with his house. He added a new front and called the house Roselands (Watson, p. 165).
  

• 1851 – Whitfield Brooks died and it is assumed that the property stayed in the family.
  

• 1850s – Mary Parsons Carroll Brooks (Whitfield's wife) had an Episcopal Chapel built on the property for family use. It was dismantled at some point and three tablets in memory of her husband, son Whitfield, and son Preston Smith Brooks were removed to the Episcopal Church in Edgefield (Watson, p. 90).
  

• ? – Edward Loudon Brooks (1876-1951) lived at Roselands (Watson, p. 166).
  

• ? – Roselands was owned by Walter C. Wyant (Watson, p. 166).
  

• ? – Mr. and Mrs. Allen Eddy bought the plantation and restored the house (Watson, p. 166).
  

Land

• Number of acres –

• Primary crop –

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Whitfield Brooks; Mr. and Mrs. Allen Eddy; Walter C. Wyant
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – 18 in 1820; 62 in 1830; 100 in 1840; 93 in 1850 (SC Census)
  

Buildings

Web Resources

Print Resources

• Claude Henry Neuffer (editor), Names in South Carolina, 1943-1983 (Columbia, SC: The State Printing Company) bk. 2 vol. 14 p. 47.
  

• Margaret Watson, Greenwood County Sketches: Old Roads and Early Families (Greenwood, SC: The Attic Press, Inc, 1970).
  

• SC Census 1820: Abbeville, Colleton, Darlington, Edgefield, Lancaster, and Orangeburg Counties, p. 122 (on microfilm at Charleston County Library).
  

• SC Census 1830: Marion, Sumter, Edgefield, Chesterfield, and Greenville Counties, p. 179 (on microfilm at Charleston County Library).
  

• SC Census 1840: Colleton (part), Chesterfield, Darlington, Edgefield, Fairfield, Greenville, Georgetown, Horry, Kershaw, and Lancaster Counties, p. 52 (on microfilm at Charleston County Library).
  

• SC Census 1850: Slave Schedules for Edgefield, Georgetown, and Fairfield Counties, p. 361 (on microfilm at Charleston County Library).
  

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