Rip Raps Plantation
Rip Raps Plantation | |
Location | East of Sumter on South Carolina Highway 378, near Sumter, South Carolina |
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Coordinates | 33°54′00″N 80°09′00″W / 33.90000°N 80.15000°W |
Area | 215 acres (87 ha) |
Architectural style | Greek Revival |
NRHP reference No. | 78002532[1] |
Added to NRHP | December 12, 1978 |
Rip Raps Plantation, also known as the James McBride Dabbs House, is a historic
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.[1]
Architecture
The structure encompasses four contributing buildings, three contributing sites, and two contributing structures. The house was built in 1858, and is a two-story, frame vernacular Greek Revival dwelling with twin facades. Each facade features a two-story, full width, pedimented portico supported by six paneled piers. Also on the property are a log smokehouse (c. 1830), a two-story carriage house (c. 1830), and a barn.
Ownership
According to Edith Mitchell Dabbs the land under Rip Raps Plantation was "given to Peter Mellette" in the 1750s.[2] It was subsequently purchased by the great-grandfather of James McBride Dabbs.
After James McBride Dabbs' death it was willed to his wife,
References
- Footnotes
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Dabbs, Edith Mitchell. "Oral History Interview with Edith Mitchell Dabbs, October 4, 1975. Interview G-0022. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007): Electronic Edition. A Southern Woman Advocates Social and Racial Justice in South Carolina in the Mid-Twentieth Century". docsouth.unc.edu. Retrieved April 30, 2019.
- ^ Julie Burr and W. Wayne Gray (August 1978). "Rip Raps Plantation" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved September 8, 2012.
- ^ "Rip Raps Plantation, Sumter County (off U.S. Hwy. 378, Mayesville vicinity)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved September 8, 2012.
- Sources
Dabbs, James McBride. "Dabbs, James McBride, 1896-1970". Civil Rights Digital Library.
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