Liberty Hill Historic District

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A small rural community located on a high plateau, Liberty Hill visually and historically reflects both the life-style and the architecture of the pre-Civil War period as well as the turn of the twentieth century. There are several imposing Greek Revival structures, Greek Revival cottages, and an 1880s vernacular Gothic Revival church. The later, turn of the century residences are primarily one-stop, simple clapboard cottages. The town’s history begins as early as ca. 1813 when Peter Garlick’s store (location unknown) was a gathering place for surrounding farmers. Soon, impressive structures were built by planters in the area. Remaining from the 1830s are Cool Spring and the Joseph Cunningham House. The majority of the town’s antebellum buildings, however, were built ca. 1840-1850. During this period Liberty Hill was a very wealthy community. However, the final days of the Civil War ended that prosperity. Nevertheless, the town did eventually reassert itself and appears to have changed very little since the beginning of the twentieth century. Listed in the National Register November 8, 1978. - SCDAH

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19th Century (37,859)
Built 1840 (334)
Built during 1840s (3,000)
District (10,518)
Exotic Revival (7,381)
Have Street View (46,424)
Kershaw County, South Carolina (33)
Liberty Hill, South Carolina (1)
Mid 19th Century Revival (7,958)
South Carolina (2,158)

Update Log 

• September 17, 2014: Updated by Michael Miller: Added "Description" & "Street View" and Imported Photo
• September 17, 2014: Photo imported by Michael Miller

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• Michael Miller - michael_a_miller [at] yahoo [dot] com
• South Carolina Department of Archives and History
• National Register database - Reference number 78002519 (Search for documents)

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