Woodburn Plantation

Woodburn Plantation is a South Carolina historical marker in Pendleton, Anderson County, dedicated 1987.

Anderson County · dedicated 1987 · U.S. Hwy. 76 & S.C. Hwy. 29 across from Tri-County Technical College, W of Pendleton, Pendleton

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Some 200 yards west of here stands Woodburn, built by S.C. Lieutenant Governor Charles Cotesworth Pinckney by 1832. Dr. John B. Adger, Presbyterian missionary to Armenia, bought Woodburn in 1852; in 1881, Augustine T. Smythe began a model stock farm here. Jane Hunter, founder of the Phillis Wheatley centers for working girls, was born in a tenant house here in 1882.

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Marker data: South Carolina Historical Marker Program, SC Department of Archives and History
Sponsored by Foundation for Historic Preservation in the Pendleton Area, Inc., and Anderson Historical Society

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