Borough House, Hay Barn, State Route 261 & Garners Ferry Road, Stateburg

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On the grounds of the Borough House plantation complex on west side of State Route 0.8 mile north of intersection of Route 261 and State Route Stateburg, Sumter County, South Carolina U.S.G.S. Wedgef ield, SC 7.5 Minute Quadrangle Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) Coordinates: Present Owner; Richard K. Anderson The Borough House RFD 3 Box 276 Sumter, South Carolina Present Use storage

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The haybarn is a dependency of the Borough House plantation complex and is typical ot several wooden barns on the property which survive from pre-automotive operations or the plantation. The Borough House complex was listed in the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Stateburg Historic District in and as an individual site in PART I. HISTORICAL INFORMATION NOTE: Background material and site history for the haybarn may be found in data pages for the Borough House, Stateburg, Sumter County, South Carolina, HABS No. Data specific to the barn follows below. The haybarn was erected at an unknown date (presumably in the nineteenth century) by unknown carpenters.

Measuring approximately x and standing about above grade, the building frame is of nailed or pegged construction resting on heavy timber sills, which in turn are supported up off the ground by pillars of mortared fieldstones. Wooden clapboarding is nailed to the frame, space being left between each clapboard to provide air circulation. The entire structure is wooden, except for the sheet metal roof, and the exterior walls and roof are painted Venetian red, white being used for the door casing and cornerpost trim. The barn contains a main floor and a Hayfearn HABS No. (Page 2) loft; access to the former can be had by two doors, one on the north side, the other on the west. The loft can be reached by an interior ladder or through the loft door above the main north door.

The building currently contains hay and miscellaneous items. Though Anderson keeps no horses, the builaing is actively maintained, and no additions or alterations to the structure (other than replacement of parts under normal maintenance) are known to have been made. Situated just beyond the southern allee, the haybarn faces a pecan orchard in the southwest quadrant of. the eighteenth century formal garden. Before the pecan trees were planted, the orchard served as a horse pasture for years, and was still used as such until the The building is part of a small complex at the southern end of the Borough House grounds consisting of three barns, two stables, a carriage house, and a concrete foundation for an unfinished structure of unknown purpose.

All of these buildings are of wooden construction and still contain wagons, a carriage, and other things once used on the plantation.