Orange Grove Plantation is a historic plantation house and national historic district located on Saint Helena Island near Frogmore, Beaufort County, South Carolina. The district encompasses one contributing building and two contributing sites, and reflects the early-20th century influx of Northerners onto St. Helena Island. The plantation was first recorded in 1753 when Peter Perry purchased 473 acres. Perry owned 46 chattel slaves.[2] The plantation house, built about 1800, was in poor condition when Henry L. Bowles (1866-1932), a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, bought the property in 1928. He demolished it and built the present house in the same year. The property also includes the tabby ruin of the kitchen, built about 1800, and a tabby-walled cemetery containing three early-19th century graves of the Fripp and Perry families.[3][4]
It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.[1]
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "Orange Grove Plantation – St Helena Island – Beaufort County". Retrieved August 25, 2017.
- ^ "Orange Grove Plantation, Beaufort County (overlooking Wallace Creek, St. Helena Island)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved February 25, 2014.
- ^ J. Tracy Power and Sherry Niland (February 1988). "Orange Grove Plantation" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places nomination. NRHP. Retrieved February 25, 2014.
External links
- Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. SC-865, "Cemetery, Orange Grove Plantation, Frogmore, Beaufort County, SC", 2 photos, 1 color transparency, 7 data pages, 1 photo caption page, supplemental material
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