Seaside Plantation, also known as the Edgar Fripp Plantation, is a historic

plantation house A plantation house is the main house of a plantation, often a substantial farmhouse, which often serves as a symbol for the plantation as a whole. Plantation houses in the Southern United States and in other areas are known as quite grand and e ...

located on Saint Helena Island near Beaufort,

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. It was built about 1795 to 1810, and is a two-story, frame dwelling in a transitional Georgian / Federal style. It features one-story hip roofed

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. Seaside was one of the plantations participating in the

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and had as its labor superintendent

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(1840–1921).

Charlotte Forten Grimké Charlotte Louise Bridges Forten Grimké (August 17, 1837 – July 23, 1914) was an African American anti-slavery activist, poet, and educator. She grew up in a prominent abolitionist family in Philadelphia. She taught school for years, including d ...

(1837-1914) also resided at Seaside Plantation. Along with Tombee Plantation, Seaside is one of only a few remaining

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plantation houses on St. Helena. Also on the property are the contributing original, brick-lined well, a clapboard shed, a large barn with clapboard siding and tin roof, and a round concrete and oyster shell silo. It was listed in the

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in 1979.

References

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