Greenville County · Marker 23-34
Hopkins Farm
3717 Fork Shoals Rd., Simpsonville vicinity
Front inscription
This farm has been owned by the Hopkins family since 1834, when John Hopkins (1793-1837) purchased it from William Toney. The Greek Revival main house was built ca. 1840, with later additions ca. 1890 and ca. 1925. Hopkins’ widow Lucinda (1800-1876) managed the farm after his death, growing cotton and corn as cash crops, supplemented by subsistence crops and livestock.
Reverse inscription
John and Lucinda Hopkins are buried in the family cemetery nearby. The farm complex includes a cook’s house, smoke house, and corn crib built ca. 1850 as well as other outbuildings from the 1870s to the present. John Drayton Hopkins (b. 1913) took over the farm in 1939, making it a model of modern soil conservation techniques such as terracing and crop rotation.