Cohasset is a house in northeastern

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about north of

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near the unincorporated community of Crocketville. It was built about 1873. It is north of

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. It was named to the

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on July 24, 1986.

History

The house was built by William James Gooding in northern

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prior to the formation of Hampton County. Gooding was a farmer and also held a number of political offices including a representative from Beaufort District to the

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, sheriff of Beaufort District, treasurer of Beaufort County, and treasurer of Hampton County. In 1879 by the end of Reconstruction and the slave labor system, he had under cultivation out of . He grew cotton,

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es,

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, rice, and

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. Tenants also cultivated some of his land.

Architecture

It is a two-story

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ed Carolina

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with a side-

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d roof. It was built from pine grown on the farm and sawed in Gooding's

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. The house has a raised basement with brick foundation in common bond with Flemish bond stenciling. It has two interior,

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ed chimneys. A one-story, shed roof porch extends across the front facade. The porch has six solid posts and a railing with turned

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s. The front elevation has five bays with the center door with sidelights and two six over six

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s on each side. The second story has five six over six lights. The center window has sidelights. There are louvered shutters on the windows of the first and second floors. The raised basement has a center door with sidelights and four over four lights aligned with those on the main level. These windows have batten shutters. There is a one-story gable-roofed appendage perpendicular to the left elevation at the basement level that serves as the kitchen. On the rear elevation at the main level, there is a one-story, shed roof appendage with a center porch flanked by enclosed rooms. The interior plan is one room deep, two rooms wide characteristic of an

. The two rooms on the first floor are on either side of a central hall. There are two small service rooms behind the main rooms. The basement has brick paver flooring and low ceilings. The two rooms on this level are the dining room and a

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room. They have plain mantels and horizontal flushboard

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. The second floor has a small room opposite the central window. The house is an excellent example of a 19th-century Carolina I-house. Additional pictures and a sketch of the first floor plan are available. There is also a picture of a surviving tenant house.

References

{{National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina Historic American Buildings Survey in South Carolina Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina Houses completed in 1873 Houses in Hampton County, South Carolina I-houses in South Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Hampton County, South Carolina