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Basic Information

• Location – Allendale, Allendale County

  3 miles southwest of Allendale on SC 47

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – Lawton House

• Current status – Privately owned

— Roselawn Plantation 1975 © National Register of Historic Places —

Timeline

• 1825 – Earliest known date of existence

• 1836 – House built by Reverend Joseph Alexander Lawton.
  

• 1865 – Served as headquarters for Union cavalry commanded by Brigadier General Judson Kilpatrick. House was spared burning for this reason.
  

  During this time, Kilpatrick allowed Lawton and his family to occupy one small room of the house, which had an outside entrance through a side door (Lawton p. 47-48).
  

• ? – Camille C. Sharpe, a descendant of Reverend Joseph Alexander Lawton, became owner
  

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – ?

Owners

• Chronological list – Reverend Joseph Lawton; Don C. Sharpe; Camille C. Sharpe (2005)
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

• National Register of Historic Places
  – Nomination form - PDF - submitted in 1975
  – Photographs, architectural overview
  

• Brief history of Roselawn Plantation - Click here
  

Print Resources

• Claude Henry Neuffer, editor, Names in South Carolina, Volume I through 30 (Columbia, SC: The State Printing Company)
   Order Names in South Carolina, Volumes I-XII, 1954-1965
   Order Names in South Carolina, Index XIII-XVIII
  

• Alexania Easterling Lawton, Allendale on the Savannah (Bamberg, SC: Bamberg Herald Printers, 1970).