Grove Plantation, Historical plantation in Adams Run, South Carolina, US
Grove Plantation is a plantation house in Adams Run, South Carolina, built about 1828 in the late-Federal-period plantation style. Its unusual feature is a series of polygonal rooms and projecting symmetrical polygonal bays. The house stands on land granted to Robert Fenwick in 1694 and now serves as the offices of the ACE Basin National Wildlife Refuge.
The land was granted to Robert Fenwick in 1694 and changed hands nine times before George Washington Morris bought it in 1825 and named it Grove Plantation. Morris, a grandson of Declaration signer Lewis Morris, built the Grove House around 1828. After his death in 1834 his widow Maria Evans Whaley ran the estate, paid off his debts by 1837 and installed a threshing machine in 1839. John Berkeley Grimball bought it in 1857 and combined it with neighbouring Pinebury.
The name Grove was given by George Washington Morris after he bought the land in 1825; the house itself dates from about 1828. Maria Evans Whaley Morris, widowed in 1834, ran the plantation, bought a schooner to carry freight for neighbours, had the house plastered by 1837 and installed a threshing machine in 1839. The duck tiles around the conference-room fireplace were added by the Henrys after 1964.
The house now holds the offices of the US Fish and Wildlife Service's ACE Basin National Wildlife Refuge, so it is a working administrative building rather than a tour site; visits depend on refuge business. The property lies at Adams Run in the ACE Basin, and the antebellum house was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
The surrounding landscape reveals how rice cultivation was engineered to work with the Lowcountry's water systems and soil conditions. Visible features like dikes and water channels demonstrate the practical adaptations made to the local environment.
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