Historic Properties

  • Thomas Green Clemson Statue at Fort Hill

    A LASTING LEGACY

    The Will of Thomas Green Clemson forever altered South Carolina state history
  • The Stately Fort Hill Mansion

    FORT HILL

    The home of Thomas Green Clemson and Anna Calhoun Clemson is rich with history
  • Hanover House

    STRIKING REVITALIZATION

    The Hanover House is one of Clemson's most beautifully renewed and restored properties
  • Hopewell Plantation and Carriage House

    NATIONAL HISTORY

    The Hopewell Plantation holds national significance as a treaty site for negotiations between the United States and Native Americans
The future of Clemson University is rooted in its past,born from a gift made when Thomas Green Clemson and his wife Anna Calhoun Clemson called Fort Hill their home. It was in this house that they dreamed of a high seminary of learning for South Carolina. What began as discussions between a husband and wife in this historic house has grown into one of the nation's leading public universities.

Historic Properties preserves the parts of campus that played a role in shaping our collective past. With your support, we can use our past as a bridge to the future.

The primary mission of the Department of Historic Properties is the management of Fort Hill, preserving the history of all who lived there. In addition to Fort Hill, the group maintains the Hanover House, located in the South Carolina Botanical Garden, as an historic house museum. The Historic Properties has been an advocate of campus-wide historic preservation, and the director serves as a University liaison to the State Historic Preservation Office. An Historic Properties Alumni Advisory Committee (HPAC) supports the goals of the department, including preservation planning for Hopewell, family home site of General Andrew Pickens, known as the Cherry Farm house.

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Historic Properties
Clemson University
Box 345615
Clemson, SC 29634-5714
Phone: 864.656-2475
Fax: 864-656-1026
Email: hisprop@clemson.edu


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