Frogmore is a plantation house on

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, built by Waccamaw's Dr. Edward Mitchell in approximately 1820 following his marriage to Edisto Island's Elizabeth Baynard. Frogmore, a rectangular, two-story, hip-roofed house, has a distinctive cotton plantation on an

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sea island. Mitchell ran a large

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with more than 100 slaves in 1840. When Edisto Island was occupied by the Federal union from 1862 onward, Colonel Moore of the

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used Frogmore as his headquarters. On May 5, 1987, Frogmore was added to the United States National Register of Historic Places.

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