Basic Information

• Location – Wallace Creek (a branch of the Beaufort River), St. Helena Island, St. Helena Parish, Beaufort County

  Located off SC 113
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – ?

• Current status – Privately owned

Timeline

• 1753 – Earliest known date of existence when Peter Perry purchases 473 acres. (Contributed by Jillian Olson)
  

• 1800 – House built

• 1928 – Orange Grove was purchased by Henry L. Bowles. He tore down the original house and a new house was built in its place.
  

Land

• Number of acres – 473 (1753), 1000 (date?), 5.7 (2005)

• Primary crop – Indigo, cattle, sheep, hogs (Contributed by Jillian Olson)
  

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Henry L. Bowles (1928), Fripp, Harwood, Peter Perry (1753)

Slaves

• Number of slaves – 46 during while Peter Perry owned Orange Grove (Contributed by Jillian Olson)
  

Buildings

• "A tabby hearth remains from a kitchen outbuilding (c. 1800) at Orange Grove Plantation. It is set very near the plantation cemetery, which is enclosed by a tabby wall" (Elswick).

Web Resources

• Elswick, Dan: Tabby in South Carolina: A Versatile Building Material - PDF - large file, see page 31
  

• National Register of Historic Places
  – Nomination form - PDF - submitted in 1989
  – Photographs, architectural overview
  

Print Resources

• Initial references: 4, 21, 24,38

More about Beaufort County

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