Wisteria Plantation – Longtown – Fairfield County

Basic Information

• Location – Longtown, Fairfield County

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – Myers-Tidwell Home

• Current status – No longer exists

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

• 1864 – Nicholas Peay Myers saved his family home from being burned by Sherman's troops. Myers was a spy for the Confederacy and did this by pretending to be a Union captain. When Union troops approached Wisteria, Myers ordered them away (1, p. 6).
  

• Early 1900s – Mrs. Mattie Myers Tidwell owned the plantation. Her late husband, David William Tidwell had probably also owned Wisteria (1, p. 6).
  

• 1935 – The house was destroyed by an accidental fire (1, p. 6).
  

• 1965 – The property was owned by Bowaters Paper (3, XII: 12).
  

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – ?

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

References & Resources

1. Information contributed by Cyndi Shull from:
   Fairfield Genealogical Society Newsletter - June 2006 - PDF (p. 6)
   

2. Newspaper article
   

3. Claude Henry Neuffer, editor, Names in South Carolina, Volume I through 30 (Columbia, SC: The State Printing Company)
    Order Names in South Carolina, Volumes I-XII, 1954-1965
    Order Names in South Carolina, Index XIII-XVIII
   

4. Julian Stevenson Bolick, A Fairfield Sketchbook (Jacobs Brothers, 1963)