Arcadia Plantation Explained

Arcadia Plantation
Location:5 miles (8 km) east of Georgetown off U.S. Route 17, near Georgetown, South Carolina
Coordinates:33.3836°N -79.2236°W
Architecture:Georgian
Added:January 3, 1978
Refnum:78002509

Arcadia Plantation, originally known as Prospect Hill Plantation, is a historic plantation house located near Georgetown, Georgetown County, South Carolina. The main portion of the house was built about 1794, as a two-story clapboard structure set upon a raised brick basement in the late-Georgian style. In 1906 Captain Isaac Edward Emerson, the "Bromo-Seltzer King" from Baltimore, purchased the property. Two flanking wings were added in the early 20th century. A series of terraced gardens extend from the front of the house toward the Waccamaw River. Also on the property is a large two-story guest house (c. 1910), tennis courts, a bowling alley, stables, five tenant houses and a frame church. The property also contains two cemeteries and other plantation-related outbuildings.[1] [2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Kappy McNulty and Kathy Hendrix. Arcadia Plantation . National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . March 1977 . 7 July 2012.
  2. Web site: Arcadia Plantation, Georgetown County (off U.S. Hwy. 17, Waccamaw Neck) . National Register Properties in South Carolina . South Carolina Department of Archives and History . 7 July 2012.