Camp Hill
National Register Listing
Street Address:
S of Glenn Springs on SC 215 (Spartanburg County)
Alternate Name:
Smith House
NRHP Nomination
Record Number:
S10817742004
Description and Narrative:
The historical significance of the name Camp Hill stems from earlier use of the hilltop location as a Revolutionary War campsite by Col. Patrick Ferguson and his Tories prior to the Battle of Kings Mountain. From the added standpoint of architecture and landscape architecture, Camp Hill is a beautiful and well-preserved example of the Piedmont’s antebellum plantation era, reflecting the increasing affluence of the planter period as elaborate homes replaced the crude log cabins of the early settler Wofford and West families. Built ca. 1835, Camp Hill is a white clapboard, three-story Greek Revival plantation house with a white-columned, two-storied piazza covering the front façade. In addition there are side wings: a doctor’s “shop” in the right wing, the plantation office in the left. Under direction of the first owner’s wife, a large garden for flowers was laid out in a formal design, all the beds edged with boxwood. The walks were graveled. The original English boxwood and the tree box have grown into a formal garden noted for its beauty. Listed in the National Register July 16, 1970.
Period of Significance:
1835
Level of Significance:
Local
Area of Significance:
Military;Archeology: Historic - Aboriginal;Architecture;Landscape Architecture
National Register Determination:
listed
Date of Certification:
July 6 1970
