Arcadia Plantation | |
Location | 5 miles (8 km) east of Georgetown off U.S. Route 17, near Georgetown, South Carolina |
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Coordinates | 33°23′01″N 79°13′25″W / 33.38361°N 79.22361°W |
Area | 90 acres (36 ha) |
Built | 1794 |
Architectural style | Georgian |
NRHP reference No. | 78002509 [1] |
Added to NRHP | January 3, 1978 |
Arcadia Plantation, originally known as Prospect Hill Plantation, is a historic plantation house located near Georgetown, Georgetown County, South Carolina. The main portion of the house was built about 1794, as a two-story clapboard structure set upon a raised brick basement in the late-Georgian style. In 1906 Captain Isaac Edward Emerson, the "Bromo-Seltzer King" from Baltimore, purchased the property. Two flanking wings were added in the early 20th century. A series of terraced gardens extend from the front of the house toward the Waccamaw River. Also on the property is a large two-story guest house (c. 1910), tennis courts, a bowling alley, stables, five tenant houses and a frame church. The property also contains two cemeteries and other plantation-related outbuildings. [2] [3]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. [1]