Robert Scruggs House, Cowpens National Battlefield, Gaffney, South Carolina. Robert Scruggs House located at Cowpens Robert Scruggs married Catherin
Robert Scruggs House, Cowpens National Battlefield, Gaffney, South Carolina. Robert Scruggs House located at Cowpens Robert Scruggs married Catherine Connell, and in 1828 his father, Richard Scruggs, gave them 200 acres of land. They had eleven children and added onto the house as the family grew. Life at the time was hard; yeomen farmers raised corn, wheat, potatoes and livestock, while their wives tended to household tasks such as spinning wool into yarn, rendering animal fat into soap and maintaining a vegetable garden The Scruggs House was built about 50 years after the Battle of Cowpens. It shows how people lived during that time, Robert Scruggs, the builder of this cabin, was born just across the state line in North Carolina in 1800. Robert's father, Richard Scruggs, moved his family to South Carolina and began farming near the Cowpens Battlefield in 1805. Robert Scruggs died in 1890 at the age of ninety. The National Park Service purchased the house and property from the granddaughter, Rosa, during the expansion of Cowpens National Battlefield in the mid 1970s.
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Location: Cowpen NPS, SC
Photo credit: © Rodney Todt / Alamy / Afripics
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