Tanglewood Plantation

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

From the record

“Tanglewood Plantation, also known as the Ellison Durant Smith House, is a historic plantation house located at Lynchburg, Lee County, South Carolina. It was built about 1850, and is a two-story, Greek Revival-style clapboard house.”
Wikipedia article Tanglewood Plantation, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Lee County · listed in 1977 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. SE of Lynchburg on SC 341, Lynchburg, 29080
When was it listed? September 1977
Category. building
Census division. Lynchburg
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 77001229 - 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

546 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 546 fires within 5 miles of Tanglewood Plantation between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,218 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 164 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	179
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	168
Arson/incendiarism	164
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Smoking	12
Natural	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
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 2007	Debris and open burning	1.6 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2014	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.6 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2001	Debris and open burning	25 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2009	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Lee County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Tanglewood Plantation: 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Columbia Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Lee Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Rhinehart No. 1 Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Smith Paving Co Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Lee County

Storms near this property

19 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lynchburg, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 12 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Lynchburg	$1,000	Public reported large limbs down in Pleasant Grove.
September 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Lynchburg	$500	Dispatch reported a tree down on Lynchburg Highway.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Lynchburg	-	Lee County dispatch reported a tree down along Tram Road in Lynchburg. Time estimated by radar.
May 2021	Hail	South Lynchburg	-	Trained spotter reported hail up to golf ball size in the town of Lynchburg. Time estimated.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	South Lynchburg	-	SCHP reported trees down at SC 341 and US Hwy 76 in Lynchburg.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	South Lynchburg	-	Sheriff's Dispatch reported a tree down along Hwy. 76 just outside of the town of Lynchburg.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	South Lynchburg	-	Lynchburg Post Office reported trees down on the south side of Lynchburg off Hwy 341. One tree was on a house.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	South Lynchburg	-	Post Office reported large limbs down across several roadways.
March 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Lynchburg	-	DOT reported trees down in and around the Lynchburg area.
August 2008	Hail	Lynchburg	-	Sheriff reported penny size hail.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Lynchburg	-	DOT reoprted several trees down in the Lynchburg area.
April 2006	Hail	Lynchburg	-	Post Office employee reported penny size hail
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Lynchburg	-	Post Office reported large limbs down southeast of Lynchburg on hwy 341.
November 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Lynchburg	-	Storm survey found large branches and a few trees down in Lynchburg.
October 2004	Hail	Lynchburg	-	SKYWARN spotter reported nickel size hail 2 miles east of Mayesville on hwy 527.
July 2000	Hail	Lynchburg	-	Sheriff reported golf ball size hail in the Lynchburg area.
March 1998	Hail	Lynchburg	-	Sheriff reported 1 inch hail in Lynchburg.
November 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Lynchburg	-	Microburst severely damaged two large turkey houses.
May 1996	Hail	Lynchburg	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lee 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

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Lynchburg Presbyterian Church	3.2 miles	2004

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 77001229 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lee County	All 18 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.