Cotton Hall House Tour and Local Vendor Market

200 State Road S-7-48,Yemassee SC 29945

26 June, 2021

Description

Join us for the opening event at Cotton Hall! View the house and grounds of this beautiful property located in Yemassee, SC. Join us as we open the doors of Cotton Hall on Saturday, June 26th from 10 am to 4 pm. This event allows you the convenience of choosing the time of your guided house tour! Tickets will allow you to walk freely throughout the property and visit our market with local vendors and food trucks. All tickets are permitted up to ONE hour inside the main house. From there, your ticket will provide you access through the Alley of Oaks, the Barn Sale, and Local Vendor Market. This event will take place RAIN OR SHINE. Tickets are non-refundable. No strollers | No pets | No smoking | No refunds About the house and property: Originally a part of the Tomotley Barony granted by the King of England, Cotton Hall is a privately owned and maintained property in Yemassee, SC, just off the old Sheldon Church Road where revolutionary battles were fought for independence and Sherman marched on his campaign from Savannah to Columbia. The original home, owned by George C. Heyward, was destroyed by Sherman's troops during the Confederate War. This property has changed hands many times; some of the more notable former owners include Colonel Palmer, nephew of Edmund Bellinger, and Colonel John McPherson dating back to 1803. The historical plantation was not known as Cotton Hall until Daniel Howard, Esquire, took ownership. Although there aren't any pictures of the original antebellum house, there are multiple live oaks that obviously mark the site of the original setting. Today Cotton Hall is one of the most notable plantations in the Lowcountry with the sweeping avenue of oaks leading up to the Georgian style 10,000 sq. ft. main house built in the late 1920's, in addition there are multiple supportive out buildings, stables, and a manager's house. The house was built by Clarke & Clarke, of Savannah, is of New England Colonial type of architecture and painted white with twenty-six rooms and nine baths. The main part of the building is two stories and it spreads out into long, low wings on either side.