1365 State Highway 25 Rd, Edgefield, SC 29824

Cedar Grove is an historic plantation home located near Edgefield SC. It was built in 1790 and is a large two story Federal home with white clapboard exterior and high gable roof. It features a double-tiered portico with delicate Amamesque detail. Many architectural features including a barrel vaulted hallway, elaborately carved mantlepieces. The front parlor retains an early hand-painted French wallpaper. The property features a landscape of tall cedars, as well as old English boxwoods and travel of an original rose garden like at John Blocker's fathers home. The gardens at Cedar Grove were reputedly laid out by Andrew Michaux, the renewed botanist who had designed the gardens at Middleton Place in Charleston SC. The famous English boxwoods of Cedar Grove were sold during the Great Depression to the Rockefeller family and planned in the gardens of the Governor's Palace in Williamsburg, VA. Also on the property are the contributing servants quarters and original kitchen.