Red Doe Plantation receives historical marker
Samantha Shepard/MORNING NEWS
Vic Phillips, the president of the Red Doe Plantation Inc., unveiled the historical marker at the Red Doe Plantation in Mars Bluff on Sunday afternoon, signifying the official recognition of the home and property as a significant piece of Pee Dee history.
The Red Doe Plantation in Mars Bluff received its historical marker Sunday afternoon, officially recognizing the rich history the home and property represent.
The home, located about a mile and a half South of Francis Marion University, was originally built in 1846 by Evander A. Gregg of the prominent Gregg family.
“The home remained in the family until about three years ago, when in 2006 the Wilkins family donated the house to us (the Pee Dee Rifles Inc., now renamed Red Doe Plantation Inc.),” said Vic Phillips, the president of Red Doe Plantation Inc.
But the history of the property goes back to the Revolutionary War era.
In 1782, Andrew Hunter, one of General Francis Marion’s scouts and a prosperous farmer in the area, had a run-in with Colonel David Fanning, a ruthless Tory leader operating in the Pee Dee River Basin of North and South Carolina. Hunter ended up as a prisoner and was sentenced to death.
The morning he was to be hanged, Hunter stole Fanning’s beloved horse, named “Red Doe” for her resemblance to a deer, and rode it to safety, making a giant leap over a canal and eluding the Tory troops.
The official marker led to a grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to restore the home.
The first phase of restoration is to work on the decrepit exterior, said Phillips.
“Once the exterior is completed, hopefully by the end of next year, then we will start room by room individually and hopefully over time we’ll be able to open it to the public,” he said.
The goal, Phillips said, is for the plantation to house museums commemorating the Pee Dee’s involvement in the War Between the States, the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, and World War I and World War II.
He also hopes that it will be available for weddings, receptions and other functions.
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Wow, someone else knows useless knowledge like I do, amazing.
Good to see we are actually gonna get something from the feds.
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Where’s an article on Sanford having 37 ethic violations? Did some of the high school interns at SCNow overlook this story yesterday? 3
Dang..that’s embarrassing!!
scnow’s time didn’t change with the rest of us, that is all. Just no one said anything till now and it hasn’t been noticed yet by them.
FPorlock…check your posting, your time is off an hour also. I’m in SC.
ACKemp..thanks for that input. Sounds like you’ve settled the issue.
I’m curious as to what time zone you’re in. Your posting shows a time of 4:36pm, but I read it at 3;46 Eastern Time.
The correct name is The War Between the States per the below referenced US SENATE resolution:
“On March 2, 1928, Senate Joint Resolution NO. 41 was adopted by Congress and entered in the Congressional Record. It reads as follows: A war was waged between 1861-1865 between two organized governments: the United States of America and the Confederate States of America. These were the official titles of the contending parties. It was not a “Civil War” as it was not fought between two parties within the same government. It was not a War of Secession, for the Southern States seceded without a thought of war. The right of a state to secede had never been questioned. It was not a War of Rebellion, for sovereign, independent states, co-equal, cannot rebel against each other. It was the War Between the States, because 22 non seceding states made war upon 11 seceding states to force them back into the Union of States”“
The New England states didn’t think secession was illegal when they threatened to take that action. Check out the Hartford Convention, in response to the War of 1812, and the actions of the Massachusetts legislature in response to Texas statehood.
Consider this quotation by L. H. Rockwell, Jr.,
“But isn’t secession a radical step and a total departure from history? Not if you look at New England’s history. The idea of secession was hatched there. ... There was also an ethnic dimension: most New Englanders were of English stock and they were terrified of mixing with the German, Irish, and Scottish blood predominant in the lower states, to say nothing of the blacks in the deep South.“
History isn’t always a pleasant subject, it it can be instructive.
I wonder what the people of that time would say about how much control the federal gov’t has over our lives now.
It is amazing.
The federal gov’t needs to be choked back.
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