Tanglewood Plantation

Tanglewood Plantation, also known as the Ellison Durant Smith House, is a historic plantation house located at Lynchburg, Lee County, South Carolina. It was built about 1850, and is a two-story, Greek Revival style clapboard house. It features a two-story pedimented front portico supported by four square columns on freestanding brick piers. A two-story projecting wing was added to the west façade in 1915, as well as a kitchen ell alteration to the south (rear) façade. Outbuildings include a pine clapboard kitchen building, a round-cut log constructed smokehouse, and a one-room schoolhouse. Tanglewood was the home of Ellison Durant "Cotton Ed" Smith, United States Senator from 1908 to 1944, and Alexander Coke Smith, Bishop of the Methodist Conference from 1902 until 1906.[2][3]

Tanglewood Plantation
LocationSoutheast of Lynchburg on South Carolina Highway 341, near Lynchburg, South Carolina
Coordinates34°01′55″N 80°01′14″W
Area10 acres (4.0 ha)
Builtc. 1850 (1850)
Built byRev. William H. Smith
Architectural styleGreek Revival
NRHP reference No.77001229[1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 22, 1977

Tanglewood was the birthplace of the educationalist John Andrew Rice.[4]

The primary crop grown at Tanglewood was cotton; a large number of African-Americans were enslaved there, including the ancestors of political activist Briahna Joy Gray.[5][6]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.[1]

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Kappy McNulty and Ruth Rhyne (September 1976). "Tanglewood Plantation" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved 1 June 2014.
  3. "Tanglewood Plantation, Lee County (S.C. Hwy. 341, Lynchburg vicinity)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 1 June 2014.
  4. Edgar, Walter B. (September 5, 2006). The South Carolina Encyclopedia. University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 9781570035982 – via Google Books.
  5. "Tanglewood Plantation - Lynchburg, Lee County, South Carolina SC". south-carolina-plantations.com.
  6. https://twitter.com/briebriejoy/status/1102354566073511942
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