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Last week’s photo – “What’s the historic significance?” – showed a building in Abbeville County that looked like it was falling down. Only one mystery sleuth – the unflappable Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas, figured it out. (Note: It was the third week in a row that we featured a photo from the Library of Congress archives.)
Peel writes, “Today’s mystery photo is of an old, single-story, two-room log cabin (dimensions: 32’4″ x 18’4″) that was one of the buildings at the Harper-Featherstone Tenant Farm off Country Road 81 (aka Harpers Ferry Rd) approximately 5 miles southwest of Lowndesville, SC.
“There is little historical information available about this particular cabin, but it is assumed to have been built to house slaves by tenant farmers during the antebellum age. It is also unknown as to where this house was originally located, but it was first built with a fireplace in the early 1800s. The fireplace was removed before the house was moved to its current location at the Harper-Featherstone Tenant Farm in the early 1900s.
“The Harper-Featherstone Tenant Farm was a collection of farm buildings that date from the tenant-farming days during antebellum period in the South. …For a more complete description and history of this building and the Harper-Featherstone Tenant Farm, check out the Historic American Building Survey HABS SC-381 document (from the National Park Service) here.”
Thanks Allan … and great job!
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