Rip Raps Plantation


Rip Raps Plantation
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
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Location	East of Sumter on South Carolina Highway 378, near Sumter, South Carolina
Coordinates	33°54′00″N 80°09′00″W / 33.90000°N 80.15000°W / 33.90000; -80.15000Coordinates: 33°54′00″N 80°09′00″W / 33.90000°N 80.15000°W / 33.90000; -80.15000
Area	215 acres (87 ha)
Architectural style	Greek Revival
NRHP Reference #	78002532^[1]
Added to NRHP	December 12, 1978

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 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. It was the home of James McBride Dabbs, plantation owner, author and leading advocate for social justice and civil rights (1896-1970), and subsequently his son James M. Dabbs, Jr. (1937–2004).^[2]^[3]

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

References

Footnotes

1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ Julie Burr and W. Wayne Gray (August 1978). "Rip Raps Plantation" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved 8 September 2012.
↑ "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.

External links

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