Table Rock CCC Camp The site of Table Rock Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Camps SP-5 and SP-6 is significant as a remnant of the types of camps built as a result of New Deal legislation which allowed for CCC workers to be used in the construction of state, county, and municipal parks. It is also significant for its association with the construction of Table Rock State Park in Pickens County between 1935 and 1941. CCC Camps SP-5 and SP-6 were responsible for the development work of Table Rock State Park. They were established in the spring of 1935 and built by the US Army, prior to the arrival of CCC workers. The camps were located near the park property on private land that was leased at little or no cost. The camp buildings at Table Rock included a headquarters, welfare building, supply building, recreation hall, mess hall, barracks, officer’s quarters, bathhouse, dispensary, school building, wood-working shop, latrine, oil house, various sheds and facilitating buildings. Principal remaining elements include the recreation hall chimney, bulleting board with adjacent benches, grotto fountain, and basin. The site also includes a number of concrete slab foundations, stone piers, stone steps, and evidence of walkways. Listed in the National Register June 16, 1989. - Bill Fitzpatrick's Photographs of The Magnificent Historic Register Landmarks of South Carolina

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Caption Source: The National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form; South Carolina Department of Archives and History

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Old Pickens Jail

The Old Pickens Jail is significant as one of the few early jails still in existence in Piedmont South Carolina. An important landmark in Pickens, the Pickens Jail was originally constructed in 1903 to serve as both a detention facility for county criminals and as the home for the Sheriff of Pickens County and his family. The living quarters for the Sheriff were located in the west side of the building and a small two-story cellblock was located in the east. In 1928 the east side of the building was expanded in order to provide additional space for the cellblock. The Jail is a two-story structure constructed of brick laid in common bond. It features a hip roof with two interior chimneys and 1/1 segmental arch windows with granite sills. At its northeast corner is a two-story crenellated tower constructed of brick laid in Flemish bond. Used as a detention facility until August 1975, the Old Pickens County Jail has since been used as a historical museum and art gallery. Listed in the National Register April 11, 1979.

Structural Science Building

The Structural Science Building, completed in 1958 with later additions, is significant for its association with the growth and development of the Department of Architecture, later the College of Architecture, at Clemson College (after 1964 Clemson University) during the period 1958-1965; for its association with Harlan Ewart McClure, long Dean of the College of Architecture, a nationally-recognized leader in architecture education, a noted architect, and the design architect of the Structural Science Building; as an outstanding early example of Modern or International style architecture in South Carolina and also for its courtyard designed by noted landscape architect J. Edward Pinckney; and for its exceptional significance in the growth and development of the College of Architecture during its formative years and also through the critical role McClure and the college played in the desegregation or integration of Clemson College in 1963 by architecture student Harvey Gantt, the first African-American student to be admitted to a previously all-white college or university in South Carolina. The original 1958 Structural Science Building is a three-dimensional composition consisting of two courtyards and three building elements. The larger courtyard is framed by the Civil Engineering Wing to the north, the Mechanical Engineering Laboratories to the east, and the Architecture Wing to the south. The large courtyard opens into the smaller courtyard through a breezeway. The smaller courtyard is almost square and is enclosed by the Architecture Wing on all four sides. The design represented a dramatic change from earlier architecture at Clemson. In line with the Modernist tradition, it has no ornament of any kind, expresses its construction system directly, uses simple geometric forms in an asymmetrical composition, and uses floor-to-ceiling glass to dissolve the boundaries between indoor and outdoor spaces. Pinckney’s design for the Lee Hall Courtyard, completed in 1965, is a contributing element to the complex. Listed in the National Register April 5, 2010.

Roper House Complex

(Camp Oolenoy) This house is significant as an example of Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) design and for its association with CCC activity within the Table Rock State Park area. The house, built in 1856 by the Roper family, was enlarged and remodeled with Craftsman influences in ca. 1937, with the help of workmen from the CCC camps at Table Rock. Three outbuildings, namely a smokehouse, garage, and chicken coop, contribute to the Roper House complex. Some of the ca. 1937 stone landscaping features were done by the CCC, under the supervision of Doc M. Newton, the stone masonry foreman at the park. The owner of the house, Manning Thomas Roper, was a carpenter and the assistant foreman of all the building construction at the park. Roper provided the land for both CCC camps and also provided the right-of-way for the original park entrance. When the last CCC camp at Table Rock was disbanded, Roper was made caretaker of the park. He was soon named the game warden for the Table Rock area and sold hunting and fishing licenses. Roper later became the first superintendent of Table Rock State Park and served until his death in 1944. In 1952, the Roper House became part of the Camp Oolenoy complex. Listed in the National Register June 16, 1989.

Williams-Ligon House

The Williams-Ligon House is significant as an intact farm complex and landscape that conveys farm practices from the early and mid-twentieth century intended to promote diversity in agricultural production and to combat soil erosion. The house is also architecturally significant as an intact example of the Folk Victorian style in rural Northern Pickens County. The house, originally a two story I-house with rooms on either side of a central hallway, was completed in 1895 by Barnet H. Williams with later additions and alterations in the early twentieth century by Henry G. Ligon. The house retains its original two-story plan with one-story rear additions that are subordinate in size and scale to the main house. The Folk Victorian decorative elements of spindle work, turned porch posts and balusters and brackets remain intact on the original part of the house. For more than fifty years, Ligon’s farming operations on the property included cotton, corn, and wheat. Ligon raised cattle for dairy and beef production, and sowed fescue, clover, Bermuda, and other grasses for cattle grazing and to maintain the soil. The nominated area of eighty-three acres includes the main house, a ca. 1875 barn that was the original Williams house, a smokehouse, and several barns and farm buildings from the mid-twentieth century. Listed in the National Register February 8, 2012.

Table Rock CCC Camp

The site of Table Rock Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Camps SP-5 and SP-6 is significant as a remnant of the types of camps built as a result of New Deal legislation which allowed for CCC workers to be used in the construction of state, county, and municipal parks. It is also significant for its association with the construction of Table Rock State Park in Pickens County between 1935 and 1941. CCC Camps SP-5 and SP-6 were responsible for the development work of Table Rock State Park. They were established in the spring of 1935 and built by the US Army, prior to the arrival of CCC workers. The camps were located near the park property on private land that was leased at little or no cost. The camp buildings at Table Rock included a headquarters, welfare building, supply building, recreation hall, mess hall, barracks, officer’s quarters, bathhouse, dispensary, school building, wood-working shop, latrine, oil house, various sheds and facilitating buildings. Principal remaining elements include the recreation hall chimney, bulleting board with adjacent benches, grotto fountain, and basin. The site also includes a number of concrete slab foundations, stone piers, stone steps, and evidence of walkways. Listed in the National Register June 16, 1989.

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