E of Eastover off Rte. 764, Eastover, South Carolina. County/parish: Richland.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places January 25, 1971. NRIS 71000806.
1 contributing building. 3 contributing sites.
Kensington Plantation House is a historic plantation house located near Eastover, Richland County, South Carolina. It was built between 1851 and 1854 for Colonel Richard Singleton, a brother of Angelica Singleton Van Buren, daughter-in-law of President Martin Van Buren. For decades the plantation was home to hundreds of enslaved men, women, and children and later tenant farmers laboring under the sharecropping system. Kensington Mansion remained in the Singleton family until 1910 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. It was restored by Union Camp in the early 1980s.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/118998398