City Directories and History: This lovely historic home, Magnolia Plantation, has been remodeling numerous times to create a legacy for all those who dwelled here. No where better does the phrase, “Houses Keep Something of The People Who Live In Them” apply any more appropriately.
Associated with the S.P. Thomas family as well as the L.I. Thompson household.
Valley Grove, another Ridgeway area house lost by fire, was built by Samuel Peyre Thomas in 1835 on what is now the Great Falls Highway, northwest of Ridgeway, near Dutchman’s Creek. After graduating from Harvard College in 1825, Mr. Thomas returned to his low country home at Betaw on the Santee River for the settlement of his late parents’ estate. With his inheritance of “ten Negroes and $2,000’’ he came to Fairfield and purchased the plantation on which he built Valley Grove. The lands adjoined Mr. Palmer’s Valencia Plantation and John Rosborough’s lands. The year before building Valley Grove, Mr. Thomas married Mr. Rosborough’s daughter, Jane Fears Rosborough. Valley Grove burned in 1841, a loss which Mr. Thomas described as “very costly.” He later built Magnolia on land his wife had inherited from her father on the Longtown- Camden Highway, where his descendants lived until the 1930’s. This land adjoined the St. Stephen’s Church property and is now owned by the Larry Thompsons. The present house is built on part of the foundations of Magnolia, which was razed in the 1930’s by the purchaser, Mr. Waring Carrington of Charleston.
Enjoy learning about this home through the More Information > link found at the bottom of the picture column, a wonder history of the home created by one of those who loved the house.
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