Frogmore (Edisto Island, South Carolina)


Frogmore
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	8341 Pine Landing Road, Edisto Island, SC 29438
Coordinates	32°35′16″N 80°21′21″W / 32.58778°N 80.35583°W / 32.58778; -80.35583Coordinates: 32°35′16″N 80°21′21″W / 32.58778°N 80.35583°W / 32.58778; -80.35583
Area	43.95 acres (17.79 ha)
Built	1820
Architectural style	Greek Revival
NRHP Reference #	86003203^[1]
Added to NRHP	May 5, 1987

Frogmore is a plantation house on Edisto Island, South Carolina, built by Dr. Edward Mitchell of Waccamaw about 1820 when he married Elizabeth Baynard of Edisto Island.^[2]^[3]

Frogmore is a distinctive antebellum sea island cotton plantation. In 1840 Dr. Mitchell operated a large plantation with more than 100 slaves. The house is a rectangular, two-story, hip-roofed residence. During the federal occupation of Edisto Island beginning in 1862, Col. More of the 55th Pennsylvania Regiment used Frogmore as his headquarters.^[4]

Frogmore was Listed in the National Register May 5, 1987.^[5]

References

↑ National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ Harriette Kershaw Leiding (1921). Historic Houses of South Carolina. J.B. Lippincott Company. p. 227.
↑ "Frogmore" (pdf). South Carolina Inventory Form for Historic Districts and Individual Properties in a Multiple Property Submission. October 7, 1986. Retrieved 8 December 2012.
↑ FreePages: 55th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers
↑ "Frogmore, Charleston County". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved Nov 22, 2012.

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