Arcadia Plantation, originally known as Prospect Hill Plantation, is a historic

plantation house A plantation house is the main house of a plantation, often a substantial farmhouse, which often serves as a symbol for the plantation as a whole. Plantation houses in the Southern United States and in other areas are known as quite grand and ...

located near Georgetown,

Georgetown County, South Carolina Georgetown County is a County (United States), county located in the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 63,404. Its county seat is Georgetown, South Carolina, Georgetown. The count ...

. The main portion of the house was built about 1794, as a two-story clapboard structure set upon a raised brick basement in the late-Georgian style. In 1906 Captain

Isaac Edward Emerson Captain Isaac Edward Emerson (1859–1931) was a wealthy American businessman, socialite, and seaman. He is most notable for having created the headache remedy Bromo-Seltzer upon which his great wealth was based and the reason he was known as t ...

, the "Bromo-Seltzer King" from Baltimore, purchased the property. Two flanking wings were added in the early 20th century. A series of terraced gardens extend from the front of the house toward the

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. Also on the property is a large two-story guest house (c. 1910), tennis courts, a bowling alley, stables, five tenant houses and a frame church. The property also contains two cemeteries and other plantation-related outbuildings. It was listed on the

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in 1978.

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* Plantation houses in South Carolina Houses in Georgetown County, South Carolina Houses completed in 1794 Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Georgetown County, South Carolina Historic American Buildings Survey in South Carolina Georgian architecture in South Carolina 1794 establishments in South Carolina {{SouthCarolina-plantation-stub