Oakwood

National Register Listing

Street Address:

SC 48, Gadsden, SC (Richland County)

Alternate Name:

Trumble Cottage

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NRHP Nomination

Record Number:

S10817740089

Description and Narrative:

(Trumble Cottage) Oakwood is significant architecturally and agriculturally as a virtually intact post-Civil War farmstead. The house, often referred to as Trumble Cottage, was constructed in 1877 for $2,621.91 by James Trumble, a native of Liverpool, England, who came to Lower Richland County about 1850 and established a plantation. Trumble and his partner Claudius Scott contracted to construct a railroad trestle over the Wateree River. This vernacular Victorian cottage with Queen Anne details is the second Trumble home of Oakwood Plantation, which earlier contained an antebellum structure burned near the end of the Civil War. The façade is characterized by a one-story porch and a highly ornamented gabled dormer. The hip-roofed porch has turned porch posts and scroll-sawn brackets. The tall dormer has three multi-paned windows, imbricated shingle siding, and an applied wooden sunburst motif in its peak. Two tall chimneys with elaborate corbelling rise above the roofline. While the residence is of the immediate post-Reconstruction period, two of the outbuildings on the site probably are antebellum. Two slave cabins, probably moved from an original “slave street,” where there are reportedly remains of log dwellings, sit immediately behind the main house. Also included are a double pen log barn, a corncrib, a frame well house, and another storage building which add to the agricultural integrity and significance of Oakwood. Listed in the National Register March 27, 1986.

Period of Significance:

1877

Level of Significance:

State

Area of Significance:

Architecture;Agriculture

National Register Determination:

listed

Date of Certification:

March 27 1986

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