John H. Goodwin House
Near Greenville, South Carolina
The John H. Goodwin House, near Travelers Rest in Greenville County, is one of the oldest surviving structures in the county, with its earliest log portion dating to around seventeen ninety. John Goodwin acquired the house and six hundred surrounding acres around eighteen forty-two.
By the eighteen sixties, thirty enslaved people lived in four dwellings on the property. According to tradition, for nearly six decades the house also served as a midway stage stop for travelers on the road between Greenville and Asheville. Goodwin added a Greek Revival store building around eighteen seventy as a post office and trading post, positioning the property at the edge of the Blue Ridge as a waystation between the upcountry and the mountains.
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in nineteen eighty-three, the house is among the most intact antebellum plantation structures in upstate South Carolina.
