Cool Springs, Greek Revival house near Camden, Kershaw County, United States.
Cool Springs is a two-story Greek Revival residence in Kershaw County with a raised brick basement and 64 Doric columns supporting tiered verandahs on its exterior. The estate also includes horse stables, a natural spring, and granite gate posts that together form the complete picture of a 19th-century plantation-style property.
The house was built in 1832 and underwent significant remodeling during the 1850s. Its listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989 recognized its architectural value to the region.
The property's name comes from the old stone spring on the grounds, one of several water features that also include a brick basin, a concrete piscatory and a dam. These structures show how the estate collected and held water; the spring itself is among the contributing elements cited in the 1989 National Register listing.
Cool Springs is a private historic property near Camden, South Carolina, not a site with public visiting hours. The house, stables, spring, brick basin, dam and granite gate posts stand together on the grounds, so the whole group of structures is best understood as one historic farm complex rather than separate stops.
Among the outbuildings is a concrete piscatory, a fish-holding basin that visitors often mistake for a fountain. With the old stone spring, brick basin and dam, it shows the estate's water supply was engineered as a working system, not just a landscape feature.
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