Hart, John L., House
National Register Listing
Street Address:
Home Ave., Hartsville, SC (Darlington County)
Alternate Name:
Hart-Mills Cottage
NRHP Nomination
Record Number:
S10817716008
Description and Narrative:
(Hart-Mills Cottage) The John L. Hart House is strongly associated by citizens of the town with the events and persons that have given Hartsville its unique characteristics. Hartsville is characterized by its post-Civil War development through the energies of the Coker family and families associated with them in the development of a variety of imaginative business enterprises. Enterprises such as Sonoco Products Company, the Coker Pedigreed Farms, the J.L. Coker Company, and other similar businesses gave opportunity to local residents and attracted some of the brightest minds in the state to locate here. A number of those individuals were owners or residents of the John L. Hart House. The building is believed to have been constructed ca. 1850 as the home of John Lide Hart. There is no question that the house as originally built was antebellum and stood on land owned by Hart. The house is a small, one-and-one-half story, frame dwelling located on a residential street adjacent to the central business district. Alterations and additions to the original building in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries changed its appearance without destroying its basic configuration. Listed in the National Register November 10, 1983.
Period of Significance:
circa 1850;19th century;20th century
Level of Significance:
Local
Area of Significance:
Community Planning and Development
National Register Determination:
listed
Date of Certification:
November 10 1983
