City Directories and History: This residence, now known as “Rawdon,” began as a small log cabin erected about 1832 by Lewis Ciples, a prominent local planter. Ciples, whose plantation was located north of the city, used the house as a summer home. His wife Sarah, lived there a number of years after his death in 1836. In the early 1880s the property was acquired by William Shannon who enlarged the house to its present proportions. [Camden Archives and Museum]
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