White Hall Plantation House Ruins and Oak Avenue

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White Hall Plantation House Ruins and Oak Avenue
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White Hall Plantation Ruins, June 2012
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LocationOff South Carolina Highway 336, west of Old House, near Ridgeland, South Carolina
Coordinates 32°28′07″N80°55′28″W / 32.46861°N 80.92444°W / 32.46861; -80.92444 Coordinates: 32°28′07″N80°55′28″W / 32.46861°N 80.92444°W / 32.46861; -80.92444
Area25 acres (10 ha)
Built1786 (1786)
Architectural styleColonial, Early Republic
NRHP reference No. 98000423 [1]
Added to NRHPOctober 27, 2000

White Hall Plantation House Ruins and Oak Avenue is a historic plantation site located near Ridgeland, Jasper County, South Carolina. The site consists of the ruins of a brick house with tabby wings and twin tabby flanking outbuildings; a tabby retaining wall; and a massive double avenue of oaks planted in the late-18th or early-19th century. The plantation house was built between 1771 and 1776, then enlarged between 1786 and 1791. The house at White Hall burned about 1870 and was not renovated or occupied afterward. [2] [3]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. [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. Sarah Fick and J. Tracy Power (June 2000). "White Hall Plantation House Ruins and Oak Avenue" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved June 1, 2014.
  3. "Old House Plantation, Jasper County (Address Restricted)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved June 1, 2014.