Thorntree
- Also Known As: Witherspoon House
- Address: Nelson Blvd (SC 527)
- Vicinity: Fluitt-Nelson Memorial Park
Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
1749/00/00 | James Witherspoon, Patriot | Architect | Irish immigrant James Witherspoon builds "Thorntree" in a progressive rural domestic design about 6 miles south of the King's Tree, Williamsburgh Township. | |||
1749/03/00 | Robert Witherspoon | Life | I remember that amongst the first thing my father brought from the boat was his gun, which was one of Queen Ann's muskets.... The family lived at the Bluff until March, 1749, my father moved his family to Thorntree - RW | |||
1752/01/00 | Robert Witherspoon | Home | Robert Witherspoon moves to the family home. He will help his father, James, who is infirm, until he meets Elizabeth Heathly. Robert had been an overseer for a Mr Fleming, near Black River Church, 25 miles below King's Tree. | |||
1780/08/00 | Banastre Tarleton | British Commander | Tarleton and 100 British dragoons and a large number of Tories under Col Elias Ball encamp at Gavin Witherspoon's Thorntree plantation south of the lower bridge, on the Black River (6 miles south on NC 377). | |||
1781/03/15 | South Carolina 4th Regiment of State Dragoons | Patriot Militia | Harassed by Patriot snipers led by Captains Daniel Conyers and W McCottry, British Lt Col Watson Tadwell-Watson evacuates Witherspoon's Plantation moves his men to Blakely's Plantation. Marion's sharpshooters follow and continue their sniping. | Battle Of Lower Bridge | ||
1969/00/00 | Thorntree house is moved from an inaccessible rural site (6 mi south of Kingstree, SC 377) to Fluitt-Nelson Memorial Park in Kingstree. It has been restored to its C18 appearance. |
Particulars for Thorntree: | |
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Area of Significance | Architecture |
Criteria | Architecture-Engineering |
Sight Category | Building |
Criteria | Historic Event |
Area of Significance | Landscape Architecture |
Area of Significance | Military |
Attribute | Moved property |
Owner | Private |
Historic Use | Single dwelling |
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