High Point Plantation - Fairfield County South Carolina SC

High Point Plantation – Fairfield County



Special thanks to Jenifer Barnes from bringing High Point to our attention and contributing much of the information on this page.

Basic Information

  • Location – near Jenkinsville, Fairfield County

    East side of SC 215, approximately 3 miles south of Jenkinsville

  • Origin of name – Sits on a ridge which is the highest point between Columbia and Spartanburg (2).

  • Other names – ?

  • Current status – Privately owned; house restored in the 2000s

Timeline

  • 1773 – Earliest known date of existence

    William Thompson was granted the property by King George III (2).

  • 1800 – House built by William Thompson (1)

  • 1842 – William Thompson died leaving High Point to his daughter and her husband Hargrave A. and Margaret Jane Glenn (1).

    High Point would remain in the family until the 1980s when it was then sold.

Land

  • Number of acres – 5.5 in 1981 (1)

  • Primary crop – Cotton was the cash crop; corn and fodder were also grown (1)

  • Thompson family cemetery remains on the property.
    (1)

Owners

  • Chronological list – William Thompson (1773-1842), Hargrave A. and Margaret Jane Glenn (1842-?), David G. Jetter

Slaves

  • Number of slaves – 23 in 1842 (1)

Buildings

  • Farmhouse, frame smokehouse, and a frame barn (1)

References & Resources

  1. National Register of Historic Places
    Nomination form - PDF - submitted in 1981
    Photographs, architectural overview

  2. Historic sites of Fairfield County: Click here - High Point Plantation numbered 87

  3. Map of Western Fairfield County: Click here - High Point Plantation numbered 87





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