John Jacob Calhoun Koon Farmstead

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John Jacob Calhoun Koon Farmstead
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John Jacob Calhoun Koon Farmstead, September 2012
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LocationCounty Road 27 off U.S. Routes 76/176, near Ballentine, South Carolina
Coordinates 34°06′51″N81°12′24″W / 34.11417°N 81.20667°W / 34.11417; -81.20667 Coordinates: 34°06′51″N81°12′24″W / 34.11417°N 81.20667°W / 34.11417; -81.20667
Area132.7 acres (53.7 ha)
Builtc. 1890 (1890)
NRHP reference No. 86000590 [1]
Added to NRHPMarch 27, 1986

John Jacob Calhoun Koon Farmstead is a historic home and farm located near Ballentine, Richland County, South Carolina, USA. The house was built in about 1890, and is a two-story farmhouse with a two-tiered Victorian influenced wraparound porch. It has a one-story, gable roofed frame rear addition. Also on the property are the contributing frame grain barn (c. 1920), a frame cotton house (c. 1900), a frame workshop/toolhouse (c. 1900), a late-19th century shed, a planing shed (c. 1920) and a sawmill (c. 1928). [2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. [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. John Wells and Mary W. Edmonds (January 1986). "John Jacob Calhoun Koon Farmstead" (pdf). South Carolina Inventory Form for Historic Districts and Individual Properties in a Multiple Property Submission. Retrieved July 7, 2014.
    "John Jacob Calhoun Koon Farmstead, Richland County (S.C. Sec. Rd. 27, Ballentine vicinity)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved July 7, 2014.