Mars Bluff, South Carolina – Rankin-Harwell House

This photo of a former planter's house was taken by Robert B. Davis. The Rankin-Harwell House was built in 1857 in the Greek Revival style, an architecture popular in the antebellum South. The original owner, William Rogers Johnson, was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives (1852-1856) and later, the South Carolina Senate (1860-1864). He was also a physician and planter. The Rankin-Harwell House was used as the setting of the 1934 movie Carolina. The house made it on the National Register of Historic Places on October 9, 1974.

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