Albion (Winnsboro, South Carolina)

Albion is a historic plantation house located near Blackstock, Fairfield County, South Carolina. It was built about 1840, and is a two-story, L-shaped, weatherboarded frame residence with a side gabled roof and rear additions. The front façade features a two-tiered verandah with Ionic order columns.[2][3]

Albion Plantation
LocationWest of Winnsboro off South Carolina Highway 34, near Blackstock, South Carolina
Coordinates34°27′22″N 81°14′36″W
Area129.81 acres (52.53 ha)
Builtc. 1840 (1840)
MPSFairfield County MRA
NRHP reference No.84000592[1]
Added to NRHPDecember 6, 1984

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.[1]

Information

The plantation was owned by Louisianan John Adger from 1845 until his death in 1866. It remained in his descendant's possession until it was sold in 1989. Adger was considered a "great planter" and cultivated large amounts of cotton.

Excerpts from "The Last Foray", South Carolina Planters of 1860, a Sociological study by Chalmers Gaston Davidson; "The purpose of the study is to discover what the planter did for—or to—his section. The criterion was slave ownership and the Federal Census of 1860, Selection was Based on owning 100 or more slaves at the end of the antebellum era. South Carolina was chosen as a compact unit, 440 were chosen to be "great planters".[4]

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. unknown (n.d.). "Albion" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved 5 July 2012.
  3. "Albion, Fairfield County (S.C. Sec. Rd. 22, Douglass vicinity)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 5 July 2012.
  4. "John Adger Information from William E. Glassell III" (PDF). 2021-03-19.


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