Rose Hill Plantation – Wallace – Marlboro County

Basic Information

• Location – Wallace, Marlboro County

  4531 Step Road
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – ?

• Current status – Privately owned (1)
  

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• 1827 – House built (1)
  

• ? – The Gillespie family acquired the plantation; probably Samuel Wilds Gillespie and/or his wife Harriet Pegues Godfrey Gillespie.
  

• 1846 – Mary Gillespie married Dr. Albert Micajah Shipp and they would come to own Rose Hill Plantation. Dr. Shipp served as the second president of Wofford College (1) (2) (3).
  

• 1900 – Mary Gillespie Shipp died at her beloved plantation. Her husband, Dr. Shipp had died in 1887 (2).
  

• 2016 – John W. and Sara A. Fletcher were owners of record. The Fletchers sold the home in June for $200,000 (1) (4).
  

Land

• Number of acres – 11 in 2016 (1)
  

• Primary crop – ?

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

References & Resources

1. Information contributed by Cyndi Shull from real estate listing: click here
   

2. Highway Marker and Gillespie - Shipp Family Graveyard
   

3. William S. Powel, Dictionary of North Carolina Biography: Vol. 5, P-S (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2016)
   
   

4. Marlboro County Tax Records.