Singleton's Graveyard

National Register Listing

Street Address:

6 mi. S of Wedgefield off SC 261 (Sumter County)

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NRHP Nomination

Record Number:

S10817743021

Description and Narrative:

Singleton’s Graveyard was the family cemetery of one of the most prominent families in the Sumter area during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Many of the 43 known graves are of Matthew Singleton’s descendants, dating from 1796 to 1944. The Singleton family amasses fortunes in land and built large neighboring plantations. As these plantations were self-contained entities, a family graveyard was established at Melrose. This plantation has long disappeared. Singleton’s Graveyard remains not only as they physical evidence of a prosperous and influential family in the Sumter area, but as evidence of a cultural pattern practiced on plantations throughout the South. Statesman George McDuffie (1790-1851) is also buried in the graveyard. Listed in the National Register May 13, 1976.

Level of Significance:

State

Area of Significance:

Politics/Government;Agriculture;Education;Military;Art;Social History

National Register Determination:

listed

Date of Certification:

May 13 1976

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