Photograph: Mount Hope plantation house, frontal view of porch
Book 2, Page 113 ·1920–1940
Transcription
A black-and-white photograph, uncaptioned. Frontal view of the Mount Hope plantation house: a one-and-a-half-story wood-frame dwelling with a deep covered porch running the full width of the façade, two gabled dormers above, and a brick chimney rising at the right gable. A rocking chair sits on the porch and several potted plants line the porch rail. A live oak draped in Spanish moss arches in from the left; bare sandy ground occupies the foreground.
AI Notes
A single black-and-white photographic print scanned without album backing. The image shows the front of a wood-frame plantation house with a long covered porch, two dormer windows, and a brick chimney at the gable; a live oak draped with Spanish moss stands at the left, and potted plants are visible on the porch rail. A bare sandy drive crosses the foreground. No caption is visible on the print — confirmed at full resolution. The same Mount Hope house also appears in book-001 page 317.
Mount Hope was the FitzSimons plantation in Charleston County, S.C. — part of the Willtown Bluff tract on the Edisto, acquired by the compiler’s father Samuel Gaillard FitzSimons Sr. in 1893 and serving as his headquarters during his tenure managing thousands of acres of Edisto-region rice fields. Pages 113–115 give three views of the house and grounds; see also book-001 p317 and book-002 p048 for earlier images of the same house.