Oaks Plantation – Winnsboro – Fairfield County

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Basic Information

• Location – Jackson Creek, Winnsboro, Fairfield County

  Five miles from Winnsboro on the Jenkinsville Road
  

• Origin of name – The plantation was named for the oak grove that surround the house (1, p. 1)
  

• Other names – ?

• Current status – ?

— Entrance to Oaks Plantation © Jim Dollar, 2015 —
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Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – Richard A.R. Hallum acquired the property (1, p. 1).
  

• Circa 1850 – House built (1, p. 1)
  

  Richard Hallum constructed the house (3)
  

• 1856 – John Montgomery Lemmon purchased the plantation from Richard Hallum for $10,000 (1, p. 1).
  

• 1865 – The Oaks Plantation was looted by Union soliders (3).
  

• 1980s – The plantation remained in the Lemmon family until the 1980s. Johnnie and Marie Lemmon Wells were the last of the Lemmon descendants to own The Oaks (3).
  

• 1984 – William J. Boulware, Jr. owned the plantation (1, p. 1).
  

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Land

• Number of acres – 1,000 in 1856; 8.3 in 1984 (1, p. 1) (3)
  

• Primary crop – ?

Slaves

• Number of slaves – 19 in 1860 (1, p. 1)

References & Resources

1. National Register of Historic Places
   – Nomination form - PDF - submitted in 1984
   – Photographs, architectural overview
   

2. Julian Stevenson Bolick, A Fairfield Sketchbook (Jacobs Brothers, 1963)
   
   

3. Information contributed by Cyndi Shull from:
   – Historic Markers Across South Carolina