Copeland House, Historic residence in South Carolina, United States.
The Copeland House is a vernacular farm residence begun in the early 1790s by John Jacob Copeland, about 2 miles west of Ehrhardt. Its original square log construction with dovetail corner joints survives largely intact beneath 19th- and early 20th-century additions and modifications. The house stands with several related outbuildings and an adjacent Copeland family burial site.
John Jacob Copeland (1775–1853) built the house in the early 1790s and raised eight children there; his descendants occupied and farmed the property for nearly 200 years, selling it in the mid-1980s. The house, its dependencies and the adjacent Copeland family burial site were listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 18, 1991.
The house stood at the centre of a German Lutheran settlement that took shape in this part of the South Carolina back country a generation before the American Revolution. John Jacob Copeland and his wife raised eight children there, and neighbouring farms were often held by families linked to the Copelands by marriage. Descendants of the fifth generation kept the property until the mid-1980s.
The house stands along a country road about 2 miles west of Ehrhardt; the nearest approach is by private vehicle on rural roads. It is a private residence with no public tours, so view it only from the road. The Copeland family burial site and dependencies stand on the same property and are likewise not open to visitors.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 18, 1991, together with several related outbuildings and an adjacent Copeland family burial site. Descendants of John Jacob Copeland, heirs of the fifth generation, sold the property in the mid-1980s after nearly 200 years of continuous family occupation.
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