Williams-Ligon House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

From the record

“Williams-Ligon House, also known as Cedar Rock Plantation and Magnolia Estates, is a historic home and farm complex located Easley, Pickens County, South Carolina. The house was built in 1895, and is a two-story, frame I-house with a one-story rear addition.”
Wikipedia article Williams-Ligon House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Pickens County · listed in 2012 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listed as. Williams--Ligon House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 1866 Farrs Bridge Rd., Easley, 29640
When was it listed? February 2012
Category. building
Census division. Easley
National Register reference number. 12000015 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

269 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 269 fires within 5 miles of Williams-Ligon House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 718 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 17 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	105
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	85
Misuse of fire by a minor	27
Arson/incendiarism	17
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Natural	8
Smoking	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Other causes	1
Fireworks	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
4 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2017	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Pickens County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Williams-Ligon House: 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Beverly Quarry	Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer	Metamorphic
Easley	Titanium, Iron	Unknown
Farrs Bridge Road Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Pickens County

Storms near this property

60 of 91 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Easley, the town this property stands in, in 91 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 45 thunderstorm wind, 29 hail, 6 flash flood, 4 tornado. The reports record 5 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
January 1998	Tornado (F2)	Easley	4 hurt, $3,000,000	A tornado developed from a fast moving severe thunderstorm that raced north out of eastern Georgia. The F2 tornado destroyed several houses and mobile homes and severely damaged many other homes and businesses. Damage was sustained to the south of the track of the tornado due to strong inflow into the storm. Damage from severe thunderstorm winds in the rear flank downdraft occurred north into Easley.
May 2003	Tornado (F1)	Easley	1 hurt, $250,000	This tornado traveled just south of highway 123, causing some structural damage and blowing down numerous trees and power lines before lifting near the Greenville County line. Several homes and a church received light to moderate roof damage, and several vacant mobile homes were damaged or destroyed at a sales lot.
November 2010	Tornado (EF1)	Easley	$1,500,000	A tornado damage path was surveyed starting in the Old Market Square area near downtown Easley. Numerous buildings in the downtown area received minor to significant roof damage. Some trees fell on homes as well. The tornado appeared to lift briefly as it traveled north northeast from the downtown area. However, the damage path appeared again in the Lenhardt Rd area just north of downtown. An anchored mobile home was rolled 60 to 80 feet and completely destroyed at this location. Numerous trees were also uprooted or snapped in this area.
July 2003	Hail	Easley	$100,000	Large hail caused considerable damage on the west side of Easley.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Easley	$30,000	no account filed
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Easley	$15,000	no account filed
March 2010	Lightning	Easley	$10,000	Lightning ignited a fire at an apartment building on Riverstone Ct, causing damage to the roof.
April 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Easley	$10,000	Numerous trees down on roads and power lines. At least 1 tree fell on a house, and at least one other fell on a car. Newspaper reported a total of 22 broken power poles across the county.
August 2003	Heavy Rain	Easley	$10,000	no account filed
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Easley	$5,000	Media reported a tree blown down on a parked vehicle.
June 2005	Lightning	Easley	$5,000	Lightning ignited a fire that destroyed a shed.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Easley	$3,000	no account filed
October 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Easley	$1,000	Public reported (via Social Media) a large tree limb down on a vehicle.
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Easley	$1,000	FD reported the roof was blown off a storage building on Walnut Hill Dr.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Easley	$1,000	Power lines were blown down.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Easley	$1,000	Some trees were blown into power lines between Easley and Liberty.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Easley	$1,000	Trees and powerlines were blown down.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Easley	$1,000	Some trees and powerlines were blown down.
May 2024	Hail	Easley	-	Emergency manager relayed public report of quarter size hail in the Easley area.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Easley	-	Fire dept and spotter reported a few trees and power lines blown down in the Easley area.
May 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Easley	-	Public reported multiple trees blown down along Townsend Dr.
May 2023	Hail	Easley	-	Public reported nickel size hail in the Easley area.
March 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Easley	-	Public reported multiple large tree limbs blown down on Townsend Dr.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Easley	-	Public reported multiple trees uprooted along Townsend Drive.
March 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Easley	-	Public reported (via Social Media) trees blown down across the train tracks in Easley and power lines blown down off Saluda Dam Rd on the north side of town.
July 2017	Hail	Easley	-	Media reported 3/4 inch hail in the Easley area.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Easley	-	Sheriffs office reported multiple trees blown down in the Easley and Dacusville areas.
May 2014	Hail	Easley	-	National Severe Storms Lab relayed public report of half dollar size hail 3 WNW. Spotters and the public reported up to half dollar size hail across the city of Easley.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Easley	-	County comms reported multiple trees blown down off Old Stagecoach Rd.
July 2013	Hail	Easley	-	Quarter size hail was reported in Easley.
January 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Easley	-	A tree was blown down on 5th St in Easley.
April 2012	Hail	Easley	-	Nickel to quarter size hail fell on highway 123 between 3 and 4 miles east of Easley.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Easley	-	Several large tree limbs and at least one power line were blown down in the Easley area.
August 2011	Hail	Easley	-	Nickel size hail fell along highway 8 near highway 135.
September 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Easley	-	Numerous trees were blown down across the eastern part of the county.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Easley	-	A few trees were blown down in the Easley area, with some on power lines.
February 2010	Flood	Easley	-	A stream overflowed its banks in the city, flooding the intersection of Hill Crest Dr and Whitmire Rd.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Easley	-	Three trees were blown down in the Easley area.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Easley	-	Several trees were blown down and an aluminum canopy was blown over.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Easley	-	Several trees blown down across the city.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Easley	-	Spotter reported 3 to 4 trees down on Brushy Creek Rd.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Easley	-	Four trees blown down in the Easley area.
June 2005	Hail	Easley	-	Reported near the intersection of Pickens, Anderson and Greenville counties.
August 2005	Flash Flood	Easley	-	Severe urban flooding in the area around Palmetto Baptist Hospital. At least one road was closed.
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Easley	-	A couple of trees were blown down at Orchard Dr and highway 8.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Easley	-	Trees were blown down.
July 2003	Flash Flood	Easley	-	Some roads were closed in the city due to flooding.
June 2003	Flash Flood	Easley	-	Pope Field Rd was flooded and highway 8 was covered by 8 inches of water just south of the city.
May 2003	Hail	Easley	-	Hail fell in the Powdersville area.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Easley	-	A couple of trees, and one power line, brought down by thunderstorm winds. Trained spotter reported dime-sized hail just outside the Easley city limits.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Easley	-	Trees and power lines down near Easley.
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Easley	-	A severe thunderstorm moving across Pickens County downed trees and power lines in the northern and eastern parts of the county. A barn near Pickens that was set on fire by lightning, burned and destroyed 3,000 bales of hay.
August 2012	Hail	Easley	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Easley	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Easley	-	no account filed
August 2009	Hail	Easley	-	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Easley	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Easley	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Easley	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Easley	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pickens County

Newspapers printed here

406 digitised pages

1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 52 issues, 406 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

Newspaper	Published
The Easley Messenger	1883 to 1891

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Arial Mill	2.9 miles	2023
Easley High School Auditorium	3.6 miles	1999
Easley Mill	4.0 miles	2013
Hester Store	4.8 miles	2013
Hagood-Mauldin House	5.0 miles	1997
Old Pickens Jail	5.0 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 12000015 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pickens County	All 29 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.