Florence County · Marker 21-30

Gregg-Wallace Farm Tenant House

310 Price Rd., Mars Bluff vicinity

Front inscription

This house, built as a one-room tenant house ca. 1890 and later enlarged several times, features a narrow front porch and rear shed addition typical of many tenant houses on plantations and farms in the post-Civil War South. Like the families who lived here, most tenants were African American.

Reverse inscription

From 1890 to 1999 members of the Williams, Waiters, Frazier, Martin, and Gregg families lived here, working as wage laborers or sharecroppers, on land owned by the Gregg and Wallace families. This tenant house was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

County
Florence
Region
Pee Dee
City or vicinity
Mars Bluff vicinity
Year approved
2010
Erected by
Florence City and County Historical Commission
Coordinates
34.202, -79.6518

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