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Woodburn, c.1830

Dates
Owners
c.1830 - 1852
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney of Charleston (1789 - 1865)
Son of Gen. Thomas Pinckney, grandson of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1699-1758)
Lt. Gov. of  SC (1832-1834)
Built house at Woodburn Plantation as a summer retreat
Wife:  Phoebe Caroline Elliott
1852 - 1853
David S. Taylor 
Wife: Lucy Hannah Taliaferro
1853 - 1859
Rev. John Bailey Adger (1810 - 1899)
Presbyterian Minister & Missionary
Son of James Adger, owner of shipping company in Charleston (James Adger & Co.) 
Wife:  Elizabeth K. Shrewsbury
1859 - 1881
Joseph Ellison Adger of Charleston (1824 - 1889)
Charleston Businessman
Younger brother of Rev. John B. Adger
Wife:  Susan Cox Johnson
1881 - 1911
Augustine Thomas  Smythe  (1842 - 1914)
Lawyer and a founding partner in Charleston law firm of Smythe and Smythe, 1866
Son of Margaret Milligan Adger and Rev. Thomas Symth, pastor of Second Presbyterian Church of Charleston  
Nephew of John B. & J. Ellison Adger 
Wife:  Louisa McCord. grandaughter of Langdon Cheves
Member of SC Senate 1890's, Trustee of Clemson College 1900-1906
1911 - 1930
William Frederick Calhoun Owen of Greenville
1930
S. C. State Bank of Greenville
1930 - c.1938
John Frank
Later incorporated as Woodburn Farms, Inc., Virginia Frank Neff, Pres.
Then returned to private ownership of John Frank
 
1939 - 1954
U. S. Government:  Resettlement Administration / Land Policy Section of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Under long-term lease to Clemson College
1954 - 1966
Clemson University
1966 - 1972
Foundation for Historic Restoration in the Pendleton Area
Name later changed to the Pendleton Historic Foundation
1972 - 1983
Pendleton District Commission

1983 - Present

Foundation for Historic Restoration in the Pendleton Area
Now the Pendleton Historic Foundation

Ashtabula, c. 1825
Dates
Owners
c. 1790
Original four-room , two-story brick house build on land granted to Thomas Lofton. Later owned by the Gassaway family and operated as a tavern.
1825 - 1837
Large clapboard house build by Lewis Ladson Gibbes of Charleston
Wife:  Maria Drayton of Drayton Hall in Charleston.  Her mother was a Middleton.
Both died before new house has completed
Children continued to occupy house under guardianship of two oldest sons, Lewis Reeves Gibbes and later Charles Drayton Gibbes..  
1837 - 1851
Dr. Oze R. Broyles, moved to Anderson 
Wife:  Saran Ann Taliaferro
1851 - 1861
James T. Latta enlarged the house to present size and increased acerage
Wife:  Angela Lott of NJ
1861 - 1865
Robert Adger for daugher Clarissa W. Bowen and husband O. A. Bowen
O. A. Bowen later purchased Rivoli Farm near Pendleton from Robert Adger
1865 - 1880
William Dalton Warren
Wife:  Sarah E. Adger, daughter of Robert Adger
Converted acreage to model dairy farm, J. C. Stribling, Mgr.
1880 - 1889
Francis J. Pelzer, founder of Pelzer Mills
Absentee landlord, J. C. Stribling, Manager
1889 - 1920

1920 - 1940

John Linley of Anderson, real estate developer. Relatives lived at Ashtabula.

Roger Inglesby orginally from Charleston

1940 - 1957
Frederick W. Symmes of Greenville, textile industrialist and philanthropist. Purchased Ashtabula to preserve the house. Last individual owner
1957 - 1961
Mead Paper Co.
Operated as tree farm / Gave house to Foundation and sold surrounding land to other paper companies.
1961 - Present
Foundation for Historic Restoration in the Pendleton Area
Name changed to Pendleton Historic Foundation in 1990's

Last updated May 15, 2008 -  Pendleton Historic Foundation, an IRS 501(c)(3) non-profit organization

Pendleton Historic Foundation
P. O. Box 444
Pendleton, SC 29670
Phone:  864-646-7249