woodburn & ashtabula plantations - pendleton, sc

Woodburn PlantationPendleton, SC

Built c. 1830 by Charles Cotesworth Pinckney

(1789 -1865) who occupied the house only in the summers to escape the heat and malaria of summers on the coast.

Sold to Rev. John B. Adger 1850 who added the double piazza to house and expanded the farm to over 1,200 acres.

Owned by members of the Adger family as a summer house until 1911.

Clemson University acquired in 1930’s after US Government acquired ~150 area farms in in foreclosure.

Pendleton Historic Foundation acquired it in 1966 along with 11 acres to restore and preserve it.

Before restoration by

Pendleton Historic Foundation

In 1970’s

Entertaining Level

2nd Floor with 5 bedrooms

3rd Floor

Sleeping Dormitory

The farm was over 1,200 acres when owned by the

Adger family with many out-buildings. Prior to Civil

War there were ~ 30 slaves working the farm.

Slave / Tennant CabinExact replica of cabin in which

Jane Edna Hunter was born at Woodburn in

1882. She moved to Cleveland, OH to found the

Phyllis Wheatley Society.

Remains of paved

flint rock road

looking back at the

house.

Walking Trail following route of flick

rock road to cistern &

ruins of barns and

outbuildings.

Pendleton Historic Foundation

Pendleton, SC

2nd story with

4 bedrooms

1st floor with 4 rooms

with center hallway

Plantation kitchen in

dependency

House originally

Had only 2 rooms

on each floor.

• Original colonial period 4-story building c.1790 operated as

travelers tavern until early 1820’s

•Main house begun in 1825 by Lewis Ladson Gibbs and his wife Maria

Drayton Gibbs but both died before house completed.

•Farm operated by their son Lewis Reeves Gibbs, renowned naturalist

who assisted Audubon in SC.

•House later owned by the Broyles and Latta families. Maine house

expended from two-rooms over two rooms to four over four rooms.

•The plantation was operated by about 30 slaves.

•Owned by Adger-Bowen family during Civil War

After Civil War, the farm became known for its Jersey cattle.

Christmas at AshtabulaAnnual Reenactment

Pendleton Historic FoundationPendleton, SC

864-646-7249