"If there is any spot of sunshine on this earth, any spot of which I love to think, talk and dream, it is the space before your door and the white gate out front, and the long avenue of trees leading to it," said Episcopal Minister Nicholas Tillinghaus
in 1846 about Roseville Plantation.
* Roseville Plantation was established by a royal grant from the English government before the American Revolution in 1771.
* Roseville Plantation was placed into the National Register of Historic Places by the National Park Service in 1997.
* Roseville Plantation was awarded two roadside, historical markers, one for the home and one for the slave and freedman's cemetery, by the South Carolina Department of Archives and History.
* Roseville Plantation was featured in Preservation magazine by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 1997.
* Roseville Plantation was showcased on HGTV's Restore America program in 2000.
* The book, A Confederate Nurse, by Jean V. Berlin, which was published in 1994, is based upon the diaries of Roseville Plantation's former owner, Ada Bacot Clarke.
* Roseville Plantation has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Atlanta Constitution, The State (over 20 times), The Charlotte Observer (8 times), The Post & Courier (7 times) and numerous smaller newspapers and publications.
* The two-story, lateral gabled, weatherboard-clad residence consists partly of mortise and tenoned hand-hewn and peeled log construction resting upon a brick pier foundation. The house features a one-story hip roofed unusually broad wraparound veranda containing a V-crimp metal-clad roof and a four-foot overhang. While its primary significance is its architecture, it is locally important for its association with the Brockington, Bacot, and Clarke families. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places on September 25, 1997.
* Roseville Plantation has been the home of two South Carolina congressmen, one officer and man-servant in the Revolutionary War, four officers and one medical doctor in the Civil War as well as four officers in World War II.
* The semiquincentennial (250 year anniversary) of Roseville Plantation was celebrated in October, 2021. The featured speakers, all descendants of Roseville Plantation, were Ms. Vivian Guyton, whose presentation was "Descendants of the Enslavers and Enslaved Coming Together in Love"; Ms. Anita Curl, whose presentation was "Roseville's History and Architecture"; and Ms. Gale Dixon, whose presentation was "Samuel Bacot, Revolutionary War Hero". Ms. Guyton's great grandmother, Minerva Cato Brockington, was a slave at Roseville Plantation. Ms. Curl's great great grandmother, Ada Bacot Clarke, was a Civil War nurse who kept extensive diaries, which were published by the University of South Carolina Press. Ms. Dixon's ancestor, Samuel Bacot, served under General Francis Marion and became famous for his bravery during the Revolutionary War.
* Ms. Guyton and Ms. Curl are scheduled to be showcased on the PBS program "Life Focus: Twist of Faith."
* Ms. Anita Curl said, "Roseville stirs the senses and emotions. Moss swaying from gnarled, twisted limbs beckons one to discover what lies at the end of the avenue. There one finds the rustic grandeur of a South Carolina home that has aged gracefully through the years. It evokes a sense of pride in our past and the need to treasure and preserve this spot of sunshine called Roseville."
William Tucker
William Tucker
