Millford Plantation is a historic slaveowner plantation house located on South Carolina Highway 261 west of Pinewood, South Carolina. It was sometimes called Manning's Folly because of its remote loca
Millford Plantation as photographed by the Historic American Buildings Survey
Another view from the Historic American Buildings Survey
A plantation house is the main house of a plantation, often a substantial farmhouse, which often serves as a symbol for the plantation as a whole. Plantation houses in the Southern United States and i
Millford Plantation
…house has been restored and preserved along with many of its original Duncan Phyfe furnishings. Millford Plantation's monumental two-story Greek Revival mansion was built in Clarendon (now Sumter) County between 1839 and 1841 for John L. Manning and his wife, Susan Frances Hampton Manning. Manning enslaved 670…
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