Orange Grove (Dalzell, South Carolina)
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Orange Grove, also known as the Gaillard-Colclough House, is an historic 40 acres (161,874.4 m²) plantation
Plantation
A plantation is a long artificially established forest, farm or estate, where crops are grown for sale, often in distant markets rather than for local on-site consumption...

 and its plantation house located at Gaillard's Crossroads, (intersection of Peach Orchard Road and Black River Road), north of Dalzell
Dalzell, South Carolina
Dalzell is a census-designated place in Sumter County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 2,260 at the 2000 census. It is included in the Sumter, South Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:...

, South Carolina
South Carolina
South Carolina is a state in the Deep South of the United States that borders Georgia to the south, North Carolina to the north, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. Originally part of the Province of Carolina, the Province of South Carolina was one of the 13 colonies that declared independence...

. On August 19, 1993, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

.

Built in 1851 in a South Carolina Lowcountry
South Carolina Lowcountry
The Lowcountry is a geographic and cultural region located along South Carolina's coast. The region includes the South Carolina Sea Islands...

 vernacular style of architecture, the house was seriously damaged by a tornado
Tornado
A tornado is a violent, dangerous, rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. They are often referred to as a twister or a cyclone, although the word cyclone is used in meteorology in a wider...

on April 30, 1924 and was rebuilt thereafter so that it now appears as a "raised cottage with a Prairie or Craftsman roof."
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