Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
From the record
“McMakin's Tavern, also known as the Morgan-Stewart House, is a historic stagecoach stop and plantation home located near Lyman, Spartanburg County, South Carolina. It was built about 1790, and is a two-story, clapboard single house with gable end chimneys.”
Wikipedia article McMakin's Tavern, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 64 National Register listings published here for Spartanburg County · listed in 1974 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.74001876- 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
99 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 99 fires within 5 miles of McMakin's Tavern
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 480 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
53
Debris and open burning
26
Misuse of fire by a minor
6
Equipment and vehicle use
4
Arson/incendiarism
4
Natural
2
Smoking
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Other causes
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
2 workings within 5 miles of McMakin's Tavern: 1 producer, 1 occurrence.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Granite, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Lyman, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 12 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning.
The reports record 1 death. 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.
Multiple large limbs and one power line were blown down in the Lyman area. Additional trees were blown down at Danzler Rd and highway 290 and at Danzler Rd and Duncan Reidville Rd. Trees were also blown down along Duncan Reidville Rd.
Trees blown down, and bark ripped off of trees, at Lake Lyman. Some power lines and power outages resulted. Also, an off-duty NWS employee in Campobello reported marble-sized hail and estimated winds of 55 to 60 mph.
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.
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.
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