The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, November 30, 1921, Image 7
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THE STORY 0
Written by H, L. Watson
State of June
inevitably one mu1(st associate ON t
Rosemont .with Mt. Vernon, for It was c
at Rosemont fhiat the idea of preserv
Ing for the nation the home of its first 1
and noblest president was first con--J
ceived aln(d within1 its walls were form
ulated 'plans which were to success- t
fully save the home of the "father of t
his country." The actual work was t
done by a gifted daughter of the Cun- 1
ingham family of Rosemont, :Miss Ann I
Pamicla Cuningham, but to her mo- E
ther, Mrs. Louisa Cuningham, belongs c
the distinguished honor of having sug- t
gested and made the first effort to- 1
wards the organization of the Mount S
Vernon association. This lady was .
the daughter of Col. William Bird of tL
Birdsborough, Pa. He moved to Geor- 1
gia in 1796. 'Mrs. Cuningham was six t
years old when her father moved to 1
Georgia, she having been -born in 0
Allexandria, Va., in 1790, at the home a
of her grandfather, Col. Dalton. It a
was her mother's eldest sister, who I
died young, who had the honor of win- ,
ling the heart and refusing the hand a
of the great Washington, when lie -was I
surveying lands for Lord Fairfax and 'l
only 17 years old. c
Mrs. Louisa Cuningham, one of the r
daughters of 'Col. Bird, was the wife r
of Capt. Robert Cuningham, distin- 1
guished for his wealth, culture and s
noble hospitality. lie lived at Rose- t
mont in baronial style, surrounded by r
all the luxuries which fortune can t
give. His great home was the frequent
resort of his friends and acquaint- 11
ances, embracing the most noted pub- I
lic men of the day, and the hospitable P
.wclcome they received insured for the I
house a large number of visitors at I
all seasons. Caipt. Cuninghan was
a gentleman of great public spirit and i
charity, as well as hospitality and ,
friendship. )uring the War of 1812 1
he ralsed a volunteer company and I
entered the service of his cointry. t
Vhen, as will ;be taken uip later, one t
considcrs the fact that the Cunign- -
hams were loyal to the crown during I
the Revolution, this fact, raising al
company to fight the 'liritish in 1812, 1
shows that the family had with becom- .1
.ng grace btecome entirely loyal to the I
new order of things. And how re- I
markable it is, too, that it should have t
.cen from a descendant of this fain
fly that the ;first suggestion of p-e- I
serving the home of the "father of lls
country came. ti is another strongt
link in the chain of the family's loyal- I
ty. They were loyal to the crown I
fron convictikm, but havdng seen the -t
.nievitable settle,,ment of the issue, t
none were or have since been morec i
loyal to the government of the land. I
'Btut, of the soutt, southern, the men 1
of the family wete all brave and.t
faithful Confederate soldiers. It could i
have hardly been otherwise -when o1c I
is told that William L. Yancey wasp
reared at Old Rosemtont. As Ite spoke,
the others of the family felt. Mr.t
Yaincey wvas a son of Benjamin Yan-t
cey and Miss IBird, a slster of Mrs.
IouIsa Cuningham.
Rtosemnont, the Beautiful -
The fame of 'Rosettont as a place of I
beauty came after- the airrival of Mrs.
Louisa C2uninghait. .It had fame be
fore but not of' this natur-e. It was
famed far and wide an the fitrst and '
latrgets frame house in upper South .
Carolina, as having been framed in 1
England In 1740, as being the cenitr-e
of the largest pr1ivate landed estatte in
the country, 90,000 acr-es, and as the
home of IPatrick Cuningham, the dci-- '1
uty suriveyor-general of the pr-ovlace.
Curwin, in his "Journal and Let
ter-s, 1776-84," says of Patrick 'Cun
lngham and his -family: "The family
of Cuninghiams (or Cuninghames)
was from Scotland, w):ler-e they hand
taken a dIcetrmined .parit dur-ing the<
str-uggles there for- religious frecedom.
The ancestors of the Cuninghams of
S5outh Cat-alina about the yeat- 1681
camne ovet- to Amnerica and settled in<
Vir-ginia. In Januar-y, 1769, tobert
and Patrick, the two eldest sons of n~
John, .who -wvas settled in Augusta,
Va., t-emoved to Ninety Six district ofa
"Sotth Carolina. -Robert settled at
Island Ror-d, on the S'aluda r-iver, and
was one of the first magistr-ates in
that district. 'Patr-ick, the name year<
was made a deputy sur-veyor-goner-ai 4
undler Sir Egerton 'Ielih, surveyor
.gener-al." IPatrick received for huim
pay fatr this wetrk a grant from Kcinig
Gotge of 90,000 acres of land. Ho
selected 80,000 in one body and in
die cent~re of this vast estate he built
on the' 'banks of the Saluda his liome,
nowv known as Riosemont. The other- <
10,000 acres of land were selected
fu'rther' down ,the river.
Cur-win fur'thtdr says of. the two
hbrothers: "The CGuninghiams were net I
altogether- opposed to the principles of '
the lIevolution, 'They, did not ethink
htthe, English goveriient ought ito
be permitted to importe taxes on the
ce10nies- lyijhQut -theser concuiryence ,
but they thought that the people
.would gain 'but -little it they osepiped
thoqIdi#Nio th9 o$NNR'i Ptr3iment I
unuiv, s. U., NOVIEMBIDER 30, 1921
o the crown during the Revolution,
ic said to 'Col. W. C. Preston: "1 Iiory
loes not accuse them." IHi.; reference I
vas certainly to his father, l' Patrick,
he builder of Rosemont, and his uncle,
lobert. It is stated by Cen. Mcrady
hat'Mr. Robert Cuiinghamm -would have
OIlied himself with the colonists In an
ttack against the Cherokees, who he
amne threatening during the Ievolu
.ion, but the 110me Iider Capt. William
ton, to whom the offer was made, re
wented it, and upon the advice of Wil-I
iamson, he retired to his home at Is
an( Ford, and remained there until
he Close of the war.
The only. one of the name against
0hom1 history does make accusation is
Villiam Cuningham, known as Bloody
lill. Bloody Mill was a distant cousin
>f Patrick Cuningham, the builder of
l6semont, and although loody Bill
risited his cousin at Rosemont, lie did
ot like there and had no interest,
Yhatever in the estate. le was said
o be a handsome man, and was known
o be dashing. Ills cousin presented
in with the famous mare "Ringtail".
3ut we have to do only with Rosemont
aid Its family.
01 the three male members of the
juningham family in old Ninety Six
listriet, Gov. Perry says that lion.,
hamuel 10atie of Greenville, who was
L gallant Whig officer in the Revolu
ion and knew every landholder above
'olumbIa, said that therc were not
biree more worthy and respectable
,eitlemen in the upper country than
he three Cuninglhams above men
loned, Pat rick, the builder of Rose
nont. and his two brothers, Robert of
sland Ford and John.
(To be continued next week.)
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F ROSEMONT
and Reprinted From The
12, 1904.
hey regarded as an odious tyranny
f an arbitrary faction at bom1e."
In support of his view is the state
lent made to the same effect 'by Gen.
IcCrady.
When Patrick Cunilngham decided
o build his home, it 'was his inteition
o build a pretentious frame house, ,
nd in order to get the lumber saiwed
to had his blacks cut the timber out of
is forests and raft the logs down the
,aluda to Charleston, where they
mld -be sawed. Arriving there with
le trees, so the family tradition goes,
ic found it impossible to get them
awed. There were several English
hips in the harbor looking about for
allast and he offered his logs as bal
ast, to .be carried to 10ngland and
here sawed and fashioned for the
touse he .wanted to build. Tradition
iso says that his offer -was accepted
-nd the timbers used in the house were
etually sawed and fashioned in 1Nng
fnd. The nails, every one of them,
eere made -by hand in a blacksmith
1op on the spot, as were also the
inges used on the doors and blinds.?t
"ho brick used in the house, it Is
laimed, were made by 10nglish work
ien on the grounds. The blinds were
made in -1England, and although they
re today 177 years old they are in a
liendid state of preservation and hold.
heir shape 'better than some made
owadays which are some 1.15 years
heir junior.
The frame 'work of the house is as
lumb -today as can be, the chimneys
re as solid and erect as one could
vish. Time, with its iron tooth, has
ilade many marks oil the old house,
uit it is in a wonderful state of pres
rvation. it is two stories high, with
ride collars underneath, and a large I
ttic. The famous old wing cellar is
ised today by '.\iaj. Robert N. Cunling
kam, the owner and sole occupant of
lie place, to store lime in. The iint
Lges of '76 or '81 no longer have their
biding place there, After the levo
ution South 'Carolina confiscated
Zosemont and the land belonging to
t, but alterwards an act was Iassed
)y the legislatu re restoring to the
amily their ancestral acres.
As stated above, Rosemnont reached.
lie zenith of its fame under its later
nistress, Mrs. Louisa Cupingliani, thel
nother of Miss Pamela Cuningham,
Ind of the father of Maj. Robert N.
uningham, who now lives there. Of
61rs. Louisa Cuningham, Gov. 1. F.,'
lerry wrote: ".She .was not only beau
iful herself, but she had a love and
aste for the beautiful. Her passion
'or flowers was unsurpassed; she col
ected then From all parts o tihe
orld. ler flowers and shrubbory
overed acres (seven acres were de
'oted to flowers alone, so Maj. Cun1
igham now says) of ground aromid
losemont, which she watched over
Lnd cltivated withl the care of a mo
her for her infant children, She naus
lie hionor of being the pioneer flonist
f the up-country. Soon after her
narriage and settlement at her hus
and'.s old family mansion, now more
hain 100 years 01(1, nile had the honor
Ind great lpleasuire of receiving a col
ection of rare flowers from Mount
,ernon, sent her 'by ,Jiidge Jiushrod
Vash ington. Years arfterwards, when
saw her flower garden and shrub
ery, they were aturlassingly beautIful,
nd1( laid off with great taste and ar
istic skill, She was most generous,
00, in the distri-bution or 1101 rare and
)oautiful flowers and ilants anmon gst
icr friends and 'acquaintances." Gov.I
jerry had the advantage of frequent
)ersonial visits to Rosemont at this:
me. Seven acres of flowers and 30'
ucres in a lpark surrounding the flow
~rs! Beautiful av.enues, making a
irons, led from the front of the house
nto the park. Remains of thIs great
ark ar'e seen today in a few gIgantic
nagnolias, rare trees and a wvilderness
f shrub'bery. The flowvers have all
Xone. Wheire they once grew and( de
eloped their beauty and fragrance now
ien cultivated ground. At the time
vhen the 1)1ace was such as described
)y Gov. Perry, thme plantation was also*
mm its zenith. There were over 500
ilaves Oil this 011e plantation, Large
uarters for t-he blacks wvore scattered
)ver the estate. The remains of those
)lack villages can be seen today ini
lie rained mounds at~ intervals inl
ho great forest around. Trhere wore
~reat ranchles or sheds for the cattle
hat roamed at large. Trhere was one
iear the house .w'hich -would protect
~00 head of cattle, horses, mules, etc.
one, gone forever, are all these
ings.
Capt. Rebert-C~unin'ghamn, the own
~r of this vast estato and thie hutsbandl
if Mrs. Louisa Cuninghmam, was a gon
lenan of education and literary tasto,
*e road law with John C. Calhouni,
nd was onelofhis favorite piipils.
3ut being ipossessed of a very large
9'rtune lhe abandonmei the law and de
oted 'himself to' planting. 'He served
he 11e01)1 of LIaurene county twice in
dgjegistet . In 'peakinig of tthe
'sot that his Andest~rs wore all loyal
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