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Mount Hope (Ridgeway, South Carolina)

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Mount Hope
Mount Hope (Ridgeway, South Carolina) is located in South Carolina
Mount Hope (Ridgeway, South Carolina)
LocationSouth Carolina Highway 34, near Ridgeway, South Carolina
Area3 acres (1.2 ha)
Builtc. 1836 (1836)
MPSFairfield County MRA
NRHP reference No.84000589[1]
Added to NRHPDecember 6, 1984

Mount Hope is a historic home located near Ridgeway, Fairfield County, South Carolina. It was built about 1836, and is a 1 1/2-story, vernacular weatherboarded building on a raised brick basement. It has a gable roof and three pedimented dormers. Also on the property are a frame smoke house (c. 1850) and a tenant house (c. 1875). It was the home of Dr. John Peyre Thomas, a prominent physician and amateur scientist.[2][3]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ unknown (n.d.). "Mount Hope" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved 5 July 2012.
  3. ^ "Mount Hope, Fairfield County (S.C. Hwy. 34, Ridgeway vicinity)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 5 July 2012.