Salmon, George, House

National Register Listing

Street Address:

SC 414, 1.8 mi. W of US 25, Travelers Rest, SC City Vicinity (Greenville County)

Alternate Name:

C. Douglas Wilson Farm

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NRHP Nomination

Record Number:

S10817723038

Description and Narrative:

The George Salmon House is associated with one of Greenville County’s earliest settlers, a surveyor instrumental in the division of Cherokee land for settlement and in the establishment of the South Carolina/North Carolina state boundary. Research suggests Salmon built the initial log part of the house as early as 1784. The house overlooks the wide bottomland fields located along a prominent bend in the North Saluda River. The two-story plantation plain style house (mid-nineteenth century), or I-House, integrates the log house and brace and tenon extension, and displays highly decorative interior detail which is significant for Greenville County. A kitchen wing was added to the rear in the late nineteenth century. In 1984 the house was moved approximately 100 feet and pivoted 90 degrees from an easterly direction to a northerly direction. At this time a substantial addition was added to the kitchen wing. Four contributing outbuildings share the 2.6-acre tract with the house: two multipurpose hay, grain, and equipment storage buildings, one small chicken coop (all early 20th century) and a smokehouse (mid-to-late 19th century). The smokehouse is the most significant, possessing gables, soffits, and returns similar to those of the house. Listed in the National Register January 21, 1988.

Period of Significance:

circa 1784;circa 1850

Level of Significance:

Local

Area of Significance:

Exploration/Settlement;Architecture

National Register Determination:

listed

Date of Certification:

January 21 1988

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