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Walnut Grove Plantation - Overview
Walnut Grove Plantation is on land granted in 1763 by King George III to Charles Moore when this area was on the western frontier. The home was built by Charles and Mary Moore in 1765, and they raised their 10 children on the property. This historic site portrays living conditions in Spartanburg County prior to 1805. The main house has double shouldered chimneys, clapboard-over-log construction, and Queen Anne mantels. There are a number of other buildings on the property including: Rocky Spring Academy, one of the first schools in the area; a separate kitchen; a blacksmith's forge; a meat house; a barn sheltering a Conestoga-type wagon; a well house with its dry cooling-cellar; and the reconstructed office of Dr. Andrew Barry Moore, the county's first college-trained physician.
