Woodland Plantation
National Register Listing
Street Address:
3435 Santuc-Carlisle Highway (S.C Highway 215), Carlisle, SC (Union County)
Alternate Name:
Jeter, James T., House
NRHP Nomination
Record Number:
S10817744026
Description and Narrative:
The plantation house at Woodland Plantation is one of Union County’s most intact antebellum residences and an excellent example of a Greek Revival residence with slight Italianate influences, reflecting the wealth and status of its owner in the decade before the Civil War. Woodland was built for Reverend James Thomas Jeter and his wife Catherine Elizabeth Mobley Jeter. One of the most unique features of the ca. 1850 house is the front porch square columns that have windows on all four sides. Lanterns were placed inside the columns to welcome visitors, to notify the stagecoach of passengers awaiting transportation, and to light the porch for family gatherings and dances. The farm complex is significant as a reflection of the traditional forms, materials, and construction techniques used in agricultural outbuildings from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. The plantation includes the main house, a storehouse, a smokehouse, a carriage house, a bull pen, a cotton gin house, a privy, a hay barn, a calf barn, an office, a dairy milking parlor, and a silo dating from 1850 to ca. 1950. The house and ten historic buildings are intact, and the plantation also included a blacksmith forge, detached kitchen, log one-room schoolhouse, and log mule barn; the physical remains of the forge are visible, as are the foundations of the schoolhouse; the log mule barn has been dismantled and moved to Saluda, N.C. and reconstructed as a residence. Foundation rocks and spring flowering bulbs also identify the sites of six tenant houses. Woodland was a cotton plantation until the 1920s and a working dairy farm from that time to the late 1950s. Listed in the National Register May 30, 2001.
Period of Significance:
1850 – circa 1950
Level of Significance:
Local
Area of Significance:
Architecture;Agriculture
National Register Determination:
listed
Date of Certification:
May 30 2001
