{"id":1663,"slug":"hopsewee-plantation-georgetown-south-carolina","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Hopsewee is the '49 — the 'Lynch Jr.' that's the born, the 'signer' that's the second youngest. The 'father' is the paralyzed — the 'cerebral' that's the Philadelphia, the 'son sent' that's the Congress. The 'rice' is the Santee — the 'indigo' that's the Winyah, the 'enslaved' that's the worked.","The 'cypress' is the black — the '1740' that's the frame, the 'tabby' that's the scored. The 'never decayed' is the kept — the 'five families' that's the owned, the 'preservation' that's the not restored. Hopsewee is the first — the 'NHL' that's the SC, the 'shipwreck' that's the Lynch lost '79.","The file keeps Hopsewee: the 1749 Lynch birth, the rice Santee, the cypress frame, and the signer lost at sea.","Hopsewee Plantation is the archive's Georgetown file — the signer's birthplace."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Hopsewee Plantation is the archive's Georgetown file — the Declaration's nursery.","A plantation keeps its signature — the file's suggestion being that Hopsewee's hold is the signed: the 'Lynch Jr.' that's the second youngest, the 'shipwreck' that's the vanished, and the 'never decayed' that's the kept."]}],"name":"Hopsewee Plantation","aliases":[],"type":"HISTORIC_PLANTATION","type_label":"Historic Plantation","cats":["HAUNTING"],"groups":["dark-history","hauntings"],"desc":"Estate with colonial-apparition folklore.","full_desc":"Hopsewee Plantation is a historic plantation in Georgetown, South Carolina. Estate with colonial-apparition folklore. Operator dates house circa 1740, identifies it as a rice plantation and Thomas Lynch Jr. birthplace, and interprets lives of enslaved residents. Local lore holds that Tour storytellers recount two men wearing colonial clothing.","address":"494 Hopsewee Road","city":"Georgetown","county":"Georgetown County","state":"South Carolina","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":33.372432,"lon":-79.280793,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":"https://www.hopsewee.com/","phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Discovery or enrichment; earliest report and independent corroboration remain under research. Confidence measures source provenance, not supernatural reality.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":66.9,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.85,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.8,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":874,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Tour storytellers recount two men wearing colonial clothing. Hopsewee Plantation's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. 'Find the 10 most-haunted places on the Hammock Coast' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. Whatever walks there, it walks often enough to keep the reports coming.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.75,"conflict_notes":"Narrative identities or deaths require independent historical corroboration.","source":{"name":"Find the 10 most-haunted places on the Hammock Coast","url":"https://hammockcoastsc.com/what-are-the-10-most-haunted-places-on-the-hammock-coast/","publisher":"Georgetown County Chamber of Commerce / South Carolina Hammock Coast","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"Operator dates house circa 1740, identifies it as a rice plantation and Thomas Lynch Jr. birthplace, and interprets lives of enslaved residents. A documented history gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that spine. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. The detail is preserved in 'Hopsewee Plantation'. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Hopsewee Plantation","url":"https://www.hopsewee.com/","publisher":"Hopsewee Plantation","type":"OFFICIAL_SITE","authority":2}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Tour storytellers recount two men wearing colonial clothing. Hopsewee Plantation in Georgetown, South Carolina carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. The account appears in 'Find the 10 most-haunted places on the Hammock Coast'. The legend does what legends do — it explains the place in a way the records can't.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Find the 10 most-haunted places on the Hammock Coast","url":"https://hammockcoastsc.com/what-are-the-10-most-haunted-places-on-the-hammock-coast/","publisher":"Georgetown County Chamber of Commerce / South Carolina Hammock Coast","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"admission_fee":"House tour from$22; museum from$15; Hopsewee Hallows from$22.","tour_availability":"Guided historic house tours about 50 minutes.","ghost_tours":"Hopsewee Hallows storytelling program, about 1 hour.","reservation_requirement":"Online booking offered; date availability must be checked.","age_restrictions":"Listed tours and museum age 6+.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-14T10:36:21+00:00","source":{"name":"Hopsewee Plantation","url":"https://www.hopsewee.com/","publisher":"Hopsewee Plantation","type":"OFFICIAL_SITE","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Find the 10 most-haunted places on the Hammock Coast","url":"https://hammockcoastsc.com/what-are-the-10-most-haunted-places-on-the-hammock-coast/","publisher":"Georgetown County Chamber of Commerce / South Carolina Hammock Coast","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},{"name":"Hopsewee Plantation","url":"https://www.hopsewee.com/","publisher":"Hopsewee Plantation","type":"OFFICIAL_SITE","authority":2}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":0,"sources":2}}