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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References
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
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