Hopkins Farm

The Hopkins family has owned this farm since 1834, when John Hopkins purchased it from William Toney. The Greek Revival main house was built circa 1840, with later additions circa 1890 and circa 1925. After John Hopkins's death, his widow, Lucinda, managed the farm, growing cotton and corn as cash crops along with subsistence crops and livestock. John and Lucinda Hopkins are buried in the nearby family cemetery. The farm complex includes a cook's house, smoke house, and corn crib built circa 1850, as well as other outbuildings dating from the 1870s to the present. John Drayton Hopkins took over the farm in 1938 and made it a model of modern soil conservation techniques such as terracing and crop rotation.

South Carolina · United States