Gregg-Wallace Farm Tenant House

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Gregg-Wallace Farm Tenant House
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Location310 Price Rd., near Mars Bluff, South Carolina
Coordinates 34°12′06″N79°39′07″W / 34.20167°N 79.65194°W / 34.20167; -79.65194 Coordinates: 34°12′06″N79°39′07″W / 34.20167°N 79.65194°W / 34.20167; -79.65194
Arealess than one acre
Builtc. 1890 (1890)
NRHP reference No. 01001550 [1]
Added to NRHPJanuary 28, 2002

Gregg-Wallace Farm Tenant House is a historic home located near Mars Bluff, Florence County, South Carolina. It was built about 1890, and is representative of a typical Mars Bluff vernacular tenant house for African Americans. Tenant houses often evolved from one-room slave houses, first by the addition of a shed room at the rear and a front porch, then by the addition of a second room. [2] [3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Amelia Wallace Vernon (August 2001). "Gregg-Wallace Farm Tenant House" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved 5 July 2012.
  3. "Gregg-Wallace Farm Tenant House, Florence County (310 Price Rd., Mars Bluff vicinity)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 5 July 2012.