George Salmon House

United States historic place


George Salmon House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

George Salmon House, 2012
35°02′06″N 82°27′31″W / 35.035079°N 82.458632°W / 35.035079; -82.458632
Area	2.6 acres (1.1 ha)
Built	1850 (1850)
NRHP reference No.	87002520^[1]
Added to NRHP	January 21, 1988

The George Salmon House, also known as the C. Douglas Wilson Farm, is located near Travelers Rest, South Carolina on SC Highway 414, off of US Highway 25.^[2]

A log house was initially built by George Salmon, a surveyor and one of the earliest settlers to the area, ca1784.^[3] Additions to the house transformed it into a two-story plantation plain style house on a brick foundation with a gable roof. In addition to the house, four other contributing properties are on the property including two multipurpose storage buildings, a chicken coop and a smokehouse.^[4]

References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "NRHP Registration Form" (PDF) (PDF). Retrieved November 30, 2013.
^ Archie Vernon Huff (1995). Greenville: The History of the City and County in the South Carolina Piedmont. Univ of South Carolina Press. pp. 42–43. ISBN 978-1-57003-045-1.
^ "George Salmon House". Retrieved November 30, 2013.