Bell Homestead

Historic Property
Alternate Name:
Bell Home
Street Address:
6496 Joyner Swamp Rd., Bayboro, SC (Horry County)

Site Number:
0225
Control Number:
U/51/0225
Date Surveyed:
September 26 2006
Category:
Building
Construction Date:
circa 1910
Alteration Date:
circa 1950
Historic Use:
Residential/Domestic
Current Use:
Residential/Domestic
Historic Core Shape:
Irregular
Number of Stories:
1 1/2 stories
Construction Method:
frame
Exterior Walls Materials:
Shiplap
Foundation Materials:
Stone Piers
Roof Shape:
cross gable
Roof Materials:
composition shingle
Porch Width:
facade and right elevation
Porch Shape:
hip
Signficant Architectural Features:
interior and exterior chimneys, simple posts on block pedestals as porch supports, closed eaves; approximately 8 out buildings consisting of tobacco barns, pack house, tenant house & live stock barns contribute to the landscape along with the surrounding fields; potential as part of a 1900?-1950 farm landscape.
Alterations:
porch - screened in & piers; no visible alterations since 1988 survey
Historical Information:
One of the tobacco barns was the first thing built on the farm about 100 years ago, other barns date to about 1940. House built out of trees on farm. W.C. Bell's great-grandfather had a lot of land and divided it among eleven children, much of it has been sold off, except up near Bruce Jyles station, Aunt Bessie's land
Source of Historical Information:
Horry County Survey, Utterback, 1988, and Linda Bell, telephone conversation, July 2006, with Staci Richey, NSA
Quadrangle Name:
Bayboro

Related place
Horry County