Orange Grove Plantation – Dalzell – Sumter County

— Orange Grove Plantation • National Register of Historic Places, 1993 —

Basic Information

• Location – Gaillard's Crossroads, two miles north Dalzell, Sumter County

  Black River Road at Peach Orchard Road (1, p. 1, 5)

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – Gaillard-Colclough House (1, p. 1)

• Current status – Privately owned

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• Circa 1810 – House built (2)
  

• 1842 – Samuel Porcher Gaillard purchased the property from J.R. Spann and Hasting Jennings (1, p. 8).
  

• 1880 – Samuel Porcher Gaillard died and the plantation stayed in the Gaillard family (1, p. 9).
  

• ? – Captain Peter Gaillard resided at Orange Grove (1, p. 9).
  

• 1902 – A part of the plantation, including the house, was sold to William Burrow and Emma Buford Colclough, relatives of the Gaillards, on December 1 (1, p. 9).
  

• 1920 – William Colclough passed away. Emma continued to live and farm Orange Grove with the assistance of her brother (1, p. ).
  

• 1924 – On April 30, Orange Grove was hit by a tornado. The storm tore off the house's roof, half story and most of the second floor. In order to salvage the house, repairs were made to reconfiguring it to a one-and-one-half story house (1, p. 6).
  

• 1951 – Emma Colclough passed away and the plantation was put into her estate (1, p. 9).
  

• 1953 – Julius Elbert Davis, Jr. purchased the plantation from the Colclough estate (1, p. 9).
  

• 1993 – Julius Elbert Davis, Jr. still owned Orange Grove, 40 years after he purchased it (1, p. 9).
  

• 2022 – Mary Lou and Summer Henry purchased Orange Grove and began restoring the plantation's main house, grounds, and a former slave dwelling (2).
  

Land

• Number of acres – 2,019 in 1860; 39.88 in 1993 (1, p. 1)

• Primary crop – Cotton; corn (1, p. 8)

Slaves

• Number of slaves – 115 in 1860; 123 circa 1868 (1, p. 9)
  

Buildings

• There is a one-story, historic servant's house near the main house (1, p. 7).
  

References & Resources

1. National Register of Historic Places
   – Nomination form - PDF - submitted in 1993
   – Photographs, architectural overview
   

2. Information contributed by Summer Henry. After purchasing Orange Grove in 2022, Summer Henry and her mother, Mary Lou Henry, began restoration of the plantation. Summer explains:
   "In doing so we involved a team from Charleston that includes a preservationist, as well as a team of architects that believe, based upon construction details within the main house, that the house dates from around 1810 as opposed to 1851. We are in the process of restoring the original footprint of the house to reflect the layout and vernacular of the home prior to the 1924 tornado which took the top story and a half from the house."