Walnut Grove

Last Friday, Nana and I traveled with Claire to Walnut Grove Plantation in Roebuck, SC. Prior to our visit, I had no idea Walnut Grove even existed! We had a wonderful day exploring the house, making candles, and thinking about what life was like during the late 1700's in South Carolina.

Charles & Mary Moore established Walnut Grove on a 550-acre land grant about 1765.  These Scots-Irish immigrants raised ten children in the house they built and lived in for 40 years.  Mr. Moore relied on a dozen enslaved African Americans and his own large family to work his sizable farm.  During the American Revolution, the Moore family, including eldest daughter Kate Moore Barry, actively supported the Patriot cause and the militia even mustered at Walnut Grove.  Loyalist William "Bloody Bill" Cunningham killed three Patriot soldiers sheltered at the plantation in 1781.