Commissioned by Jasper County 250 in 2024, this report focuses on the interpretive context for Old House Plantation in Jasper County, South Carolina, in the context of British General Augustin Prevost’s 1779 invasion of South Carolina.

Largely inspired by the discovery of a map (typically referred to as the “Prevost Map”) in the Henry Clinton Papers at the University of Michigan, the Jasper County 250 committee speculated that encampment of Prevost’s forces on May 3, 1779, took place at or near the Old House Plantation site. This report, which involved extensive research travel to collections in South Carolina and Massachusetts, explores the history of Old House Plantation in context with Prevost’s Invasion in particular and the Revolutionary War more broadly.

Ultimately, CHC concluded that Prevost’s encampment was unlikely to have occurred at the Old House residence site and instead was probably a bit further to the north. More importantly, CHC’s research discovered evidence that the Old House residence may have been burned during a British raid on the plantation on February 2, 1779, just prior to Prevost’s more concentrated campaign in the area. This raid, long overlooked in past historical and archaeological explorations at Old House, provides an important new lens for discovery in the vicinity.