MISS DENA BLECKLEY'S HOUSE

Historic Property

Alternate Name:

Site

Street Address:

Anderson, SC

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Site Number:

S108042001400043

Date Surveyed:

May 1971

Category:

Site

Construction Date:

1854

Historic Use:

Residential/Domestic

Current Use:

Residential/Domestic

Historical Information:

This is one of the tew houses built within the town's original boundary which still stands. In turn it was occupied by members of a number of prominent Anderson families: Horton, Kennedy, Vandiver, Bleckley. Edward R. Miles, a refugee from Charleston, who for a time was a member of the Confederate Congress, taught school there. Huge boxwoods and trees adorn the gorunds and there is a rose bush 100 years old.

Source of Historical Information:

See NR into.

Survey:

Anderson - City, 1971 and 1978

Archives Location:

Box 14, Series 108042, Survey of historic resources (county by county data on surface properties), circa 1971-2014

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