Allison Plantation is a historic home and farm complex located near

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. The main house was built about 1860, and is a -story, frame

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style dwelling. It has a two-room one-story frame ell and two-story pedimented

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supported by square columns. Also on the property are a one-story frame barn, remains of the detached log kitchen, a concrete pedestal for a windmill, a

spring house A spring house, or springhouse, is a small building, usually of a single room, constructed over a spring. While the original purpose of a springhouse was to keep the spring water clean by excluding fallen leaves, animals, etc., the enclosing stru ...

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, mill, and the dilapidated remains of Dr. Allison's Drugstore. It was the home of Dr. Robert Turner Allison, a locally prominent physician and politician. It was added to the

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in 1980.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina Greek Revival houses in South Carolina Houses completed in 1860 Houses in York County, South Carolina National Register of Historic Places in York County, South Carolina {{YorkCountySC-NRHP-stub