Pomaria (Summer-Huggins House)

Pomaria

Pomaria, March 2012
Location Southeast of Pomaria on U.S. Route 176, near Pomaria, South Carolina
Coordinates 34°15′15″N 81°23′8″W / 34.25417°N 81.38556°W / 34.25417; -81.38556Coordinates: 34°15′15″N 81°23′8″W / 34.25417°N 81.38556°W / 34.25417; -81.38556
Area 2.1 acres (0.85 ha)
Built c. 1825 (1825), 1840
Architectural style Greek Revival, Gothic, Carpenter Gothic
NRHP Reference # 79003321[1]
Added to NRHP April 24, 1979

Pomaria, also known as the Summer-Huggins House, is a historic plantation house located near Pomaria, Newberry County, South Carolina. It was built about 1825, and is a two-story, frame dwelling on a raised basement with Greek Revival and Federal style design elements. It features a two-story, projecting pedimented portico. Also on the property are the contributing log smokehouse, a board and batten privy, and a Carpenter Gothic post office, which served as the first post office in the Dutch Fork. Pomaria Nurseries were begun on the plantation in 1840.[2][3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. Michele Barovsky and Nancy Fox (January 1979). "Pomaria" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved June 2014. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  3. "Pomaria, Newberry County (U.S. Hwy. 176, Pomaria vicinity)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved June 2014. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)


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