History
Redcliffe in South Carolina is a Greek Revival plantation house completed in 1859 for James Henry Hammond, on an estate begun in 1857 and designed by Louis Berckmans. Now preserving 369 acres, the property remained home to three generations of Hammond descendants, and its collections trace family life from 1859 to 1975. Surviving features also illuminate the wider plantation community whose labor sustained the estate, including two preserved slave cabins from about 1857 that help interpret the lives of roughly 300 enslaved people. The property later passed to South Carolina in 1973 and is recognized for its links to slavery, emancipation, and Reconstruction.
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Beech Island, South Carolina · United States
