Rip Raps Plantation

Rip Raps Plantation, also known as the James McBride Dabbs House, is a historic plantation house and national historic district located near Sumter, Sumter County, South Carolina. It was the home of James McBride Dabbs, author and leading advocate for social justice and civil rights (1896-1970).

Rip Raps Plantation
LocationEast of Sumter on South Carolina Highway 378, near Sumter, South Carolina
Coordinates33°54′00″N 80°09′00″W
Area215 acres (87 ha)
Architectural styleGreek Revival
NRHP reference No.78002532[1]
Added to NRHPDecember 12, 1978

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.[1]

Architecture

The structure encompasses four contributing buildings, three contributing sites, and two contributing structures. The house was built in 1858, and is a two-story, frame vernacular Greek Revival dwelling with twin facades. Each facade features a two-story, full width, pedimented portico supported by six paneled piers. Also on the property are a log smokehouse (c. 1830), a two-story carriage house (c. 1830), and a barn.

Ownership

According to Edith Mitchell Dabbs the land under Rip Raps Plantation was "given to Peter Mellette" in the 1750s. [2] It was subsequently purchased by the great-grandfather of James McBride Dabbs.

After James McBride Dabbs' death it was willed to his wife, Edith Mitchell Dabbs, and subsequently their son, James M. Dabbs, Jr. (1937–2004), after Edith passed in 1991. [3][4]

References
Footnotes
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Dabbs, Edith Mitchell. "Oral History Interview with Edith Mitchell Dabbs, October 4, 1975. Interview G-0022. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007): Electronic Edition. A Southern Woman Advocates Social and Racial Justice in South Carolina in the Mid-Twentieth Century". docsouth.unc.edu. Retrieved 2019-04-30.
  3. Julie Burr and W. Wayne Gray (August 1978). "Rip Raps Plantation" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved 8 September 2012.
  4. "Rip Raps Plantation, Sumter County (off U.S. Hwy. 378, Mayesville vicinity)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 8 September 2012.
Sources

Dabbs, James McBride. "Dabbs, James McBride, 1896-1970". Civil Rights Digital Library.


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