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Fort Hill National Historic Landmark Historic Hanover House (c. 1716)
Fort Hill was home to John C. Calhoun Hanover House, built in 1716 for French
and Thomas G. Clemson. Politician Calhoun Huguenot Paul de St. Julien in Berkeley
served as Congressman; Secretary of War; County, SC, is one of South Carolina’s oldest
Vice President to John Quincy Adams; Vice wooden residences. The St. Julien and
President to Andrew Jackson; Secretary Ravenel family home was threatened with
of State; and Senator. John and Floride’s flooding by Lake Moultrie in 1941. The Historic
daughter, Anna Maria Calhoun, married American Buildings Survey of the Santee-
Thomas Clemson at Fort Hill in 1838. Thomas Cooper basin noted that Hanover was of
G. Clemson was a scientist, mining engineer, national significance. Hanover was preserved
diplomat to Belgium, and superintendent of at Clemson University, home to the state’s
agriculture. Thomas Clemson willed that Fort architectural school. It was relocated to the
Hill “shall always be open for the inspection of South Carolina Botanical Garden in 1994,
Alone or in Tandem
visitors” as a museum. The antebellum main now overlooking a vegetable garden. Hanover
Fants Grove (Twin Lakes) Mountain Bike
house and outbuildings are restored with House is restored as a monument of early
Trails take the beginner or the veteran biker
original furnishings interpreting plantation French Huguenot colonial architecture. The
around beautiful Lake Hartwell. Head to
life and the African American experience. museum interprets life at a Lowcountry South
Anderson, SC and hop on.
Fort Hill is open for self-guided tours utilizing Carolina rice plantation. Hanover House is
interpretive exhibits, brochures and QR currently open for weekday tours only. It is
Stumphouse Tunnel and construction to a halt. It stands today as a code phone app. It is closed on all home closed on all home football game Saturdays
Issaqueena Falls monument to the efforts of pre-Civil War football games on Saturdays and the and the weekend after Thanksgiving.
The 1,617-foot-long Stumphouse Tunnel engineering. It was also the curing location weekend after Thanksgiving. 113 Hanover Cir.
was started in 1852 by the Blue Ridge for the famous Clemson Blue Cheese. Down 520 Fort Hill St. Clemson, SC 29634
Railroad to connect Charleston to Knoxville a gentle, graveled path a short distance is Clemson, SC 29634 (864) 656-2241
and eventually on to Cincinnati. The Issaqueena Falls, a beautiful waterfall with a (864) 656-2475 clemson.edu/about/history/properties/
Civil War – and lack of funds – brought wooden lookout platform and a picnic shelter. clemson.edu/about/history/properties hanover

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