![]() ![]() Little documentation exist, though R&R has collected some, to show where the family acquired the design for the open lighted columns but by the mid 1850’s the family was showing them off in three adjoining counties. These houses are all highly similar and may have been constructed by the same artisan group. Particular to their liking were open columns on the fronts of their homes, as seen in Woodland Plantation. Postcard image courtesy of the Davie Collection - 2017Ĭity Directories and History: The extended Mobley family of Fairfield, Chester and Union counties, South Carolina built some of the finest antebellum dwellings in the region. Picking cotton was a seasonal event but dominated much of the rural South's activities and heavily depended on African American laborers to cultivate and harvest thousands of acres of crops by hand. One of the Chester Co homes of the Mobley family the Edward Mobley home on Hwy #9, using the same building techniques and style.Ī scene repeated across the South until the mid 1950s. R&R Note: that both the chimney caps as well as the door surrounds and double doors themselves, are virtually identical, in this Fairfield County "Mobley" home and that of Woodland. Old John Mobley home in upper Fairfield County, SC. Courtesy of the Jeter Family Collection - 2018ġ902 POSTAL AND RAILWAY MAP SHOWING SANTUC, S.C. Photo of seven of the Jeter's eight children who grew up at Woodland. Courtesy of the Jeter Family Collection - 2018 James Thomas Jeter, who constructed Woodland Plantation. ![]()
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