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Mountain Home Plantation, named for the hill on which it is located, was established before the Civil War. In 1859 Samuel J. Hartzog bought the plantation from his brother Joseph and built the two-story brick house that same year at a cost of $2,993.08. It was originally a Greek Revival house with a full-width two-story portico and turned posts. Cotton grown and processed there was hauled by wagon to the railroad at Graham’s Turn Out, now Denmark. Samuel and Mary Hartzog’s son Henry Simms Hartzog, who was born there, became the third president of Clemson College, now Clemson University, from 1897 to 1902. In the 1940s the house was remodeled in the Classical Revival style, with a second-story balcony and columns.
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