Woodburn Farm Collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: Mss-0139

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

In one folder there are xeroxed fragments of recollections of Woodburn (24 pages); a copy of a letter from John Linley to Mrs. Watson which gives an explanation of the recollections (2 pages); copies of recollections of Woodburn by Louisa Cheves Smythe Stoney, oldest daughter of Augustine T. Smythe (13 pages). A second folder contains a list of horses and a list of cattle; a copy of Preservation Progress is from Charleston dated November 1968, with an article about Samuel Gaillard Stoney, and a catalog of the Woodburn Stock Farm. A third folder contains 10 photographs of Woodburn circa 1889 and a typed sheet with information about the photographers.

Dates

1880-1908

Creator

Wright, Hannah McCord Smythe (other_unmapped, Person)

Historical Note

Woodburn Farm in Pendleton, South Carolina was built by Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Jr., about 1820. Other owners included David Taylor, 1850-1852; Rev. John Bailey Adger, D.D., 1852-1857; Joseph Ellison Adger, 1857-?; Augustus T. Smythe owned it from 1880-1908, and ran it as a stock farm. He raised Jersey cattle and Percheron horses. Jane Hunter, founder of the Phyllis Wheatley Association, was born in a tenant house at Woodburn in 1882.

There were several owners following the Smythe family. During the Great Depression, the Resettlement Administration, a U.S. federal agency, bought Woodburn and other farms in the area. In the 1950's, Woodburn and other acreage was given to Clemson College. On August 1, 1966, Clemson University deeded Woodburn and 6.26 acres of land to the Foundation for Historic Restoration in the Pendleton Area. Woodburn is on the National Register for Historic Places.