Tombee Plantation

Historic Property

Alternate Name:

[unknown]

Street Address:

Whooping Crane Lane;(Beaufort County)

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Site Number:

445-054

Control Number:

U/13/445-054

Tax Number:

R300 036 000 0052 0000

Date Surveyed:

March 7 1998

Category:

Building

Construction Date:

circa 1800

Historic Use:

Residential/Domestic

Current Use:

Residential/Domestic

Historic Core Shape:

T

Number of Stories:

2

Construction Method:

frame

Exterior Walls Materials:

Weatherboard

Foundation Materials:

Raised Basement

Roof Shape:

cross gable

Roof Materials:

raised seam metal

Porch Width:

full facade

National Register Determination:

listed

Historical Information:

Built c. 1800 by Thomas Chaplin, occupied in the late antebellum era by his grandson, Thomas B. Chaplin (1822-1890).

Source of Historical Information:

Cole, Historic Resources of the Lowcountry, p. 65; Theodore Rosengarten, Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter (NY: William Morrow and Co., 1986).

Quadrangle Name:

Saint Phillips Island

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