Grovewood Plantation is the ancestral home of the Weston family. Originally known as The Weston home at Grovewood, the house later simply came to be known as Grovewood.

The original structure of the home dates to 1765. Seventy years later, in 1835, this structure was moved almost five miles to its current location. Out buildings of approximately the same time period were attached to the rear of the home and bedrooms were added overhead, almost doubling its size to a 4x4 configuration with central halls. The raised cottage is an imposing and beautiful blend of federal and classical styles where double doors open into a breathtaking hallway with soaring 13-foot ceilings.

When Sherman’s troops arrived at her home looting and burning their way through Lower Richland County, Mrs.Weston greeted them on her front porch. She frightfully explained “I have no way to defend my home; there are only my daughters and myself.” When asked the whereabouts of her husband, Colonel Weston, she promptly replied, “Out defending his Country, sir!” The Yankee officer, being a gentleman, agreed, “As well he should be.”

He went on to explain that Colonel Weston was a classmate in Paris and that he was there to protect her home. He inquired about other family homes in the area, resulting in Mrs. Weston’s sister home, Magnolia, visible across the field through an avenue of water oaks, being spared the torch, along with other historic family homes in the county.