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2 unusual facts about Wade Hampton II


Wade Hampton II

The Hampton family summer retreat, High Hampton, which they had built in the western mountains of North Carolina, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, as are their mansion in Columbia, South Carolina, the Hampton-Preston House; and the ruins of their plantation house Millwoods in Richland County, South Carolina.

He had several plantations in Issaquena County, Mississippi, where he held a total of 335 slaves by 1860, as well as properties in South Carolina and his summer home in the western mountains of North Carolina.


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(Wade Hampton II was the owner of the greatest number of slaves in the South before the Civil War; Wade Hampton III was a postbellum so-called Redeemer.)


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