Orange Grove Plantation (Saint Helena Island, South Carolina) Explained

Orange Grove Plantation
Nrhp Type:hd
Nocat:yes
Location:Overlooking Wallace Creek, 0.25 mi. from South Carolina Highway 113, near Frogmore, South Carolina
Coordinates:32.3703°N -80.6039°W
Built:c., 1928
Architecture:Central passage 4-over-4
Added:May 26, 1989
Refnum:88001774

Orange Grove Plantation is a historic plantation house and national historic district located on Saint Helena Island near Frogmore, Beaufort County, South Carolina. The district encompasses one contributing building and two contributing sites, and reflects the early-20th century influx of Northerners onto St. Helena Island. The plantation was first recorded in 1753 when Peter Perry purchased 473 acres. Perry owned 46 chattel slaves.[1] The plantation house, built about 1800, was in poor condition when Henry L. Bowles (1866-1932), a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, bought the property in 1928. He demolished it and built the present house in the same year. The property also includes the tabby ruin of the kitchen, built about 1800, and a tabby-walled cemetery containing three early-19th century graves of the Fripp and Perry families.[2] [3]

It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Orange Grove Plantation – St Helena Island – Beaufort County. 2017-08-25 . .
  2. Web site: Orange Grove Plantation, Beaufort County (overlooking Wallace Creek, St. Helena Island) . National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. 25 February 2014.
  3. Web site: J. Tracy Power and Sherry Niland . February 1988. Orange Grove Plantation. National Register of Historic Places nomination. NRHP. 25 February 2014.