The Pineland

National Register Listing

Street Address:

The Pineland Lane, off Hwy 321, Garnett, SC City Vicinity (Hampton County)

Alternate Name:

Black Swamp Plantation Summer House

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NRHP Nomination

Record Number:

S10817725006

Description and Narrative:

The Pineland is an excellent intact example of late Federal-early Greek Revival residential design with Victorian-era alterations and additions, demonstrating its evolution from a summer house for nearby Black Swamp Plantation during the period ca. 1800-1865 and as a main residence since 1865. It is also significant for its associations with the Lawton family, prominent in the founding and development of Robertville, a flourishing community in nineteenth-century Beaufort District. The Pineland was built between 1800 and 1820 by William Henry Lawton (1775-1827). The house is a one-story, double pile, lateral gable, composition shingle-clad roofed residence set upon a high stuccoed brick pier foundation with diagonal wood lattice infill. The house has a braced frame structure with mortised, tenoned, Roman numeraled and pegged joinery and is clad in weatherboard. After serving as an officer for the Confederate army, Lawton’s son William John Lawton made The Pineland his permanent home. He was later elected as one of three representatives from the new Hampton County to the South Carolina House of Representatives after the county was founded in 1878. The property also includes a smokehouse, old kitchen, and an old workshop (now a cottage) which contribute to the nomination. Listed in the National Register July 8, 1999.

Period of Significance:

circa 1800 – 1820;circa 1880

Level of Significance:

Local

Area of Significance:

Architecture

National Register Determination:

listed

Date of Certification:

July 8 1999

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