White Plains

Front: North of this road is White Plains, a two-story residence built c.1823 for Isaiah DuBose. It was one of the most substantial homes in the antebellum Springville community and the only remaining W of Black Creek. Thomas P. Lide (1810-1882) acquired the house and 1,700-ac. tract in 1839. Lide had the home renovated extensively, with its square shape and much of its character being set by the 1850s. Reverse: While living at White Plains, Lide served as an S.C. representative and senator and was a leader in the Darlington Agricultural Society. The house was the center of a cotton plantation worked by enslaved people, sixty-five of whom Lide owned in 1860, when seventeen slave dwellings were on the property. White Plains remained in the Lide family until being sold in 1937.