Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site: chicken house wash house historic structure report

Original publisher: Atlanta, GA: Cultural Resources, Southeast Region, National Park Service, 2007. OCLC Number: (OCoLC)244568350 Subject: Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site (Flat Rock, N.C.) Excerpt: ... CHICKEN HOUSE / WASH HOUSE HISTORIC STRUCTURE REPORT Carl Sandburg Home NHS, Flat Rock, NC Part I.A Historical Background & Context the Swedish House, was likely built in the early 1850s. Life at Rock Hill Summers at Rock Hill typically began in late June and lasted until late October. The trip would begin with a railroad journey of several days to Aiken, South Carolina, for not only the family and servants, but the horses and carriages as well. From there, the trip would continue by carriage and wagon to Figure A-3 Smyth servants in front of the kitchen, c. 1910 ( Collection of William McKay, Smyths ' Greenville and finally through the Saluda great-grandson ) Gap and into Flat Rock. Initially travel by carriage took a week, which was reduced From a previous review of the estate's after 1853 when the railroad was extended records, it has been suggested that the two to Columbia. In 1861, rail travel extended men paid for carpentry services during to Spartanburg and further reduced the 1839-41 and identified in the account book carriage ride to two days. By 1880, it was by their first names only, Ben and Peter, possible to make the entire trip from 3 were slaves. It was not unheard of for Charleston to Flat Rock by rail. slaves with marketable skills to be paid for their work; some bought their own freedom Memminger was a slave owner in addition that way. However, wages were usually paid to employing several men to oversee and to their owner, with the slave negotiating a work the Rock Hill farm. Kinson share, so if Ben and Peter were someone Middleton was hired in October 1839 as else's slaves, it would have been somewhat Rock Hill's overseer, and paid $ 250 per year unusual for them to have been paid directly. according to Memminger's account book. ...