Puritan Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“Puritan Farm, also known as Keitt-Whaley-Pearlstine House, is a historic plantation house located near St. It was built between 1820 and 1825, and is a large white two-story clapboard frame I-house.”
Wikipedia article Puritan Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Calhoun County · listed in 1974 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. W of St. Matthews, St. Matthews, 29135
When was it listed? July 1974
Category. building
Census division. St. Matthews
National Register reference number. 74001829 - 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

313 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 313 fires within 5 miles of Puritan Farm between 1992 and 2020, burning about 874 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 16 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	156
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	74
Equipment and vehicle use	31
Arson/incendiarism	16
Natural	13
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Smoking	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Recreation and ceremony	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
9 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2017	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Calhoun County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Puritan Farm: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Roof Pit	Clay	Producer

Every working recorded in Calhoun County

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
David Houser House	1.5 miles	1980
Calhoun County Courthouse	2.1 miles	1981
Col. J. A. Banks House	2.1 miles	1980
Calhoun County Library	2.4 miles	1975
Col. Olin M. Dantzler House	2.5 miles	1973
Cherokee Path, Sterling Land Grant	6.5 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74001829 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Calhoun County	All 14 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.