Orange Grove Plantation is a historic plantation house and national

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located on Saint Helena Island near Frogmore, Beaufort County, South Carolina. The district encompasses one contributing building and two contributing sites, and reflects the early-20th century influx of Northerners onto St. Helena Island. The plantation was first recorded in 1753 when Peter Perry purchased 473 acres. Perry owned 46 chattel slaves. The plantation house, built about 1800, was in poor condition when Henry L. Bowles (1866-1932), a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, bought the property in 1928. He demolished it and built the present house in the same year. The property also includes the tabby ruin of the kitchen, built about 1800, and a tabby-walled cemetery containing three early-19th century graves of the Fripp and Perry families. It was listed in the

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in 1989.

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* Historic American Buildings Survey in South Carolina Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina Houses completed in 1928 Houses in Beaufort County, South Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Beaufort County, South Carolina Plantations in South Carolina Plantation houses in South Carolina {{Agri-stub