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BackVolume 13:1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 3031 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 XIII: 20 November, 1966 it was torn down about 1917, the Chapel doors still stand on the property. Mrs. Thomas B. Clarkson and her daughter, Miss Julia Glarkson, organized a school in the yard of their Sand Hills home for the Negro children of the neighboring plantations. In 1871 an Episcopal Chapel known as St. Thomas' Chapel was built by the Reverend Thomas B. Clarkson on the same property. Services for the Negroes of the section are still held here twice a month.63 Minerva Academy. located in the community of Minervaville, between Oabin Branch and Cedar Creek, was founded by the Minerva Society. They petitioned for incorporation November 29, 1802.64 The children of many prominent families attended the school, among them were three of the grand- Sons of Joel Adams I (1750-1830) and Grace Wes- ton Adams.63 The school was said to be in charge of Professor William James Bingham who later founded the Bingham School in North Carolina. In 1834 the Minerva Academy was closed and by an Act of Legislature, December 18, 1834, the trustees were authorized to sell the property and after paying the debts to turn the money over to the Beulah Baptist Church.66 Mill Creek School, both a day and boarding school, named for the nearby creek, was founded about 1800 on lands given by Mrs. William Good- wyn for a building to be used as both a school and church, It is located near what is now Pinewood Lake and was in operation until 1887.67 Palmetto Academy, a Sand Hills school which stood on lands adjoining the summer home of Ed- ward Brevard Heyward, was in operation early in the nineteenth century. The principal's house, a plain hut substantial two-story building, is still standing and is the home of the Pete Larsavick family, Elm Savannah School House, built on the planta- tion of Joel Adams, was used as a school for chil- dren of the neighboring plantations,68 and worship services were also held here before St. John's Church, Congaree, was built in 1858.°~ Soon after the Revolutionary War, Colonel Wade Hampton (1752-1835) came to live in Riehiand County and purchased many thousands of acres of land. Much of his property extending from Gill's Creek in the Garner's Ferry Road area to the swamplands of the Congaree River, was obtained through the South Carolina Land Act of 1785. With Colonel Thomas Taylor and Timothy Rives he bought a tract of 18,500 acres at ten cents an acre, Colonel Taylor retained a portion of the upper part of the tract and Colonel Hampton became owner of the balance.7° Two years prior to this he had married Mrs. Martha Epps Goodwyn Howell and at her death in 1784 he acquired a large plantation, Greenfield, in the Congaree River swamp.7' Other Lower Rich- land plantation's owned by him were Millwood, Woodlands. and the Machines. At Woodlands Col- onel Hampton built his home by 1790 and it stood until Sherman's march in 1865 when it was de- stroyed by fire, The name of the plantation was obviously descriptive of the timberlands on the property. The Machines, a plantation worked by 197 slaves, was possibly named because of the mechanical devices used thereon. The house at Millwood named no doubt because of its proximity to the Hampton and Goodwyn mills was built at the time of the marriage of Colonel Wade Hampton II (1791-1858) and Ann Fitzsimons who was the daughter of a wealthy Charleston merchant, Christopher Fitzsimons.72 Colonel Hampton was a substantial planter before his father's death, owning 146 slaves in 1830. From his father he inherited the plantations in Richiand District.73 "At magnificently and ele- gantly furnished Miliwood which was built in the grand manner of the storied southern planter, he accumulated a great library, spared no expense in lavishly entertaining and maintained a racing es- tablishment which for many years made him pre- eminent on the South Carolina turf."74 There are no pictures of Miliwood in existence and all that was left, after it was burned in 1865, were the massive columns which still stand. An interesting letter written from Columbia, August 6, 1842, from John Temple Seibels to his wife Mrs. Ann Seibels gives us these facts: "Mr. and Mrs. Smith and myself rode out to Miliwood yesterday afternoon, but found no person at home, and none of us carried any cards. Mr. Smith gave the servant a small basket that Miss Harriet Hampton had a few days ago carried some figs into his wife and said that would answer for his card. We called for water and the servant brought us some in a large cut glass pitcher and 3 silver goblets. The yard was spread all over with white sand like that at the horse pond, and not a chip nor a stone to be seen in it and under the house sanded in like manner. We then rode to Woodlands, his father's residence and from thence through the plantation." ~ After Colonel Wade Hampton's (1791-1858) death, Wade Hampton III (1812-1902) assumed specific debts and acquired lands in Mississippi, but he built a home, Diamond Hill, 76 in what is now the Forest Hills section of Columbia. His four sisters became owners of the Miliwood prop~. erty. The plantation contained 1079 acres and thirty-nine slaves. Woodlands and the Machines became the property of Frank Hampton J,77 On March 22, 1865, after Miliwood and Diamond Hill lay in ashes,78 Wade Hampton wrote to his beloved sister Mary Fisher Hampton [from near Bentonville, N. C.] "It has been a great distress |
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