E of Columbia on Garner's Ferry Rd., Columbia, South Carolina. County/parish: Richland.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places March 18, 1971. NRIS 71000803.
1 contributing building. 3 contributing sites.
Millwood is the site and ruins of an antebellum plantation house at 6100 Garner's Ferry Road (US 76), Columbia, South Carolina. Owned by Colonel Wade Hampton II and his wife Ann Fitzsimmons Hampton, it was the boyhood home of their first son Wade Hampton III and other children. He later became a Confederate general and later, South Carolina governor, and U.S. Senator.
After the death of Wade Hampton II in 1858, the house was inherited by his four unmarried daughters. On February 17, 1865, it was burned by General Sherman's troops the same time the city of Columbia was burned. On March 18, 1971, the ruins were named to the National Register of Historic Places.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/118998412