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Gregg-Wallace Farm Tenant House is a historic home located near Mars Bluff,
Florence County, South Carolina Florence County is a county located in the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2020 census, its population was 137,059. Its county seat is Florence. Florence County is included in the Florence, SC Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county' ...
. It was built about 1890, and is representative of a typical Mars Bluff vernacular tenant house for African Americans. Tenant houses often evolved from one-room slave houses, first by the addition of a shed room at the rear and a front porch, then by the addition of a second room. It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 2002.


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African-American history of South Carolina Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina Houses completed in 1890 Houses in Florence County, South Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Florence County, South Carolina {{FlorenceCountySC-NRHP-stub