Camp Hill, Glenn Springs, South Carolina


Camp Hill
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Camp Hill, February 2012
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Location	South of Glenn Springs on South Carolina Highway 215, near Glenn Springs, South Carolina
Coordinates	34°47′22″N 81°48′59″W / 34.78944°N 81.81639°W / 34.78944; -81.81639Coordinates: 34°47′22″N 81°48′59″W / 34.78944°N 81.81639°W / 34.78944; -81.81639
Area	9 acres (3.6 ha)
Built	1835
Architectural style	Greek Revival
NRHP Reference #	70000600^[1]
Added to NRHP	July 6, 1970

Camp Hill, near Spartanburg, South Carolina, is the site of a plantation house built by Dr. John Winsmith in 1835.^[2]^[3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.^[1]

It had originally been the camp site of British Major Patrick Ferguson prior to the Battle of Kings Mountain, October 17, 1780. This was an important Patriot victory in the Southern campaign of the American Revolutionary War. Frontier militia overwhelmed the Loyalist militia led by Major Ferguson. In The Winning of the West, Theodore Roosevelt wrote of Kings Mountain, "This brilliant victory marked the turning point of the American Revolution."

References

1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ Fant, Mrs. James W. (May 16, 1970). "Camp Hill" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
↑ "Camp Hill, Spartanburg County (S.C. Hwy. 215, Glenn Springs vicinity)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 25 August 2012.

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