Hunt Cabin

Ransom and Martha Hunt were well-to-do farmers who owned over 8,000 acres of land and lived in this cabin, built by slaves in 1835, with their 12 children near Seneca, South Carolina. Nineteenth-century life in the South Carolina Piedmont was characterized by hard work and a simple lifestyle. Many Upcountry settlers were of Scots-Irish background, and their adherence to frugal living and lack of adornment contrasted with their Lowcountry neighbors who summered here. This cabin was moved here in the mid 1960s.

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