Elizabeth Pascalis purchased these 790 acres in 1835, settled here with her son Cyril Ouviere, and brought her daughter’s orphaned children to live here. Cyril, a civil engineer, was a resident engineer constructing the Charleston-Hamburg railroad, the world’s longest when completed in 1833, and in 1834 he helped lay out and survey streets in nearby Aiken. Elizabeth Pascalis willed this house, once known as Pascalina, to her granddaughter Theodosia Wade and her husband John C. Wade in 1863. The Wades were living here in February 1865 when Union general Hugh Judson Kilpatrick used the house as headquarters during the Battle of Aiken. The house remained in the family until 1944.

Photo: Mike Stroud

Photo: Mike Stroud

Photo: Brian Scott

Photo: Brian Scott

Photo: Brian Scott

Photo: Brian Scott

Photo: Mike Stroud

Photo: Mike Stroud

Aiken, South Carolina · USA