Grovewood Plantation is the ancestral home of the Weston family. Originally known as The Weston home at Grovewood, the house later simply came to be known as Grovewood.

The original structure of the home dates to 1765. Seventy years later, in 1835, this structure was moved almost five mile to its current location. Out buildings of approximately the same time period were attached to the rear of the home and bedrooms were added overhead, almost doubling its size to a 4x4 configuration with central halls. The raised cottage is an imposing and beautiful blend of federal and classical styles where double doors open into a breathtaking hallway with soaring 13-foot ceilings.

When Sherman's troops arrived at her home looting and burning their way through Lower Richland County, Mrs. Weston greeted them on her front porch. She frightfully explained" I have no way to defend my home; there is only my daughters and myself." When asked  the whereabouts of her husband, Colonel Weston, she promptly replied, "Out defending his  Country, sir!" The Yankee officer, being a gentleman, agreed, "As well he should be." He went on to explain that Colonel Weston was a classmate in Paris and that he was

there to protect her home.

He inquired about other family homes in the area, resulting in Mrs. Weston's sister home, Magnolia, visible across the field through an avenue of water oaks, being spared the torch, along with other historic  family homes in the county.

William  moved  his family from NC to Lower Richland Co. SC and built "Grovewood Plantation."

From "A History of Richland County" by Edwin J. Green:

William Weston and his wife, Sarah Luten, came to the "Fork" from Edenton, N. C., about 1750 and built their home not far from the station of Weston. A thicket on the Garrick Place marks the site. Here Mrs. Sarah Weston, the "Widow Weston," was living during the Revolution. Children of this couple were, it seems, Robert, who collected his mother's Rev olutionary claims; William, who married Grace Hirons and lived at Gum Tree near Congaree; James, a member of Capt. John Fairchild's company of rangers (1751); Thomas; Malachi; Grace, wife of Joel Adams. If Philip Raiford (III) married Judith Weston, she most probably was a daughter of this couple.     From William and Grace

Historical Sites - Richland County

Grovewood (Weston House), S.C. Hwy. 769, Congaree, Lower Richland County

Source: National Register Properties in South Carolina

http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/richland/S10817740081/index.htm

Grovewood Plantation

"Weston House"

Weston, Richmond, SC

Built by William Weston II about 1773

(It is still standing)

Music:

South Carolina on My Mind

Written by:     Hank Martin and Buzz Arledge

Performed by: Hank Martin and Buzz Arledge

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Before Restoration

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After Restoration

Source: National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form; South Carolina Department of Archives and History (digital images); Lower Richland County Multiple Resource Area (MPS019)