Arcadia Plantation, originally known as Prospect Hill Plantation, is a historic plantation house located near Georgetown, Georgetown County, South Carolina. The main portion of the house was built about 1794, as a two-story clapboard structure set upon a raised brick basement in the late-Georgian style. In 1906 Captain Isaac Edward Emerson, the "Bromo-Seltzer King" from Baltimore, purchased the property. Two flanking wings were added in the early 20th century. A series of terraced gardens extend from the front of the house toward the Waccamaw River. Also on the property is a large two-story guest house (c. 1910), tennis courts, a bowling alley, stables, five tenant houses and a frame church. The property also contains two cemeteries and other plantation-related outbuildings.[2][3]

Arcadia Plantation
Front facade of Arcadia Plantation.
Arcadia Plantation is located in South Carolina
Arcadia Plantation
Arcadia Plantation is located in the United States
Arcadia Plantation
Location5 miles (8 km) east of Georgetown off U.S. Route 17, near Georgetown, South Carolina
Coordinates33°23′01″N 79°13′25″W / 33.38361°N 79.22361°W / 33.38361; -79.22361
Area90 acres (36 ha)
Built1794 (1794)
Architectural styleGeorgian
NRHP reference No.78002509[1]
Added to NRHPJanuary 3, 1978

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Kappy McNulty and Kathy Hendrix (March 1977). "Arcadia Plantation" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved 7 July 2012.
  3. ^ "Arcadia Plantation, Georgetown County (off U.S. Hwy. 17, Waccamaw Neck)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 7 July 2012.
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