Basic Information

• Location – High Hills Section, Sumter County, St Mark's Parish
  

  Located on Argyle Drive, about 3 miles south of Stateburg off SC 261
  

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Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• 1869 – House built by Dr. Henry J. McLaurin and was named Stirling, for Stirling Castle in Scotland.

• Greek-Revival home

Land

• In 1885, a small school was built in the front yard of Argyle Plantation. Prior to that, Mary Agnes McLaurin taught white preschool children in a room in the house at Argyle Plantation. She was followed by Catherine Louisa McLaurin. For six months each year Argyle was a public school. Parents paid the school expenses for the other three months.
  

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Owners

• Alphabetical list – Dr. Henry James McLaurin

• Comments – Dr. McLaurin received a degree in internal medicine and surgery from the Medical College of South Carolina in 1857. He married Elizabeth McFaddin on August 20, 1863.
  

Slaves

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Buildings

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Web Resources

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Print Resources

• Initial references: 66

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