HISTORIC OCONEE COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA
Subject: Pleasant Alexander House 

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Contributor: Frederick C. Holder, Box 444, Pickens, SC 29671 

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DATAFILE INPUT . : Paul M. Kankula at kankula1@innova.net in Jan-2003

DATAFILE LAYOUT  : Paul M. Kankula at kankula1@innova.net in Jan-2003

HISTORY WRITE-UP : Frederick C. Holder in 1989


PLEASANT ALEXANDER HOUSE - Built about 1814

The house now standing at High Falls County Park has long been
called the Pleasant Alexander House. Moved from its original site near
the present Lake Keowee Dam to preserve it for future generations,
the house was over a century earlier located only a short distance
upriver from a town called Old Pickens which existed from 1828 to
1868. At least part of the house may be older than previously thought.
Although Pleasant Alexander and his wife, both prominent residents
of Old Pickens at one time, lived in the dwelling for a number of years,
it is now believed that at least a part of the house was the plantation
home of Thomas Robertson. Robertson sold the property for the town
of Old Pickens in 1827.

An 1818 map indicates a building above Robertson's Ford on the
Keowee. This building is probably Robertson's house, later known as
the Pleasant Alexander house. After Robertson became disabled, the
property passed through several hands including Joseph Grisham,
who sold the property to the Germans for Walhalla. In 1842, Pleasant
Alexander bought it.

Following Alexander's death on September 9, 1855, his wife lived
on the property for a number of years. The property was a farm from
the time Lecena Alexander moved away until the 1960s when it was ac-
quired by Duke Power. The house was used as a construction office
for the Duke Power Project until being dismantled and moved to its
present location in 1972. It was listed in the National Register of
Historic Places in 1972.

Location: Take Pickens Highway (Hwy. 183) west of the Duke Power
World of Energy going toward Walhalla. Turn left onto High Falls Road
(Road 201). Follow the signs to High Falls County Park. The unfurnish-
ed house is within the park and is sometimes open to the public during
warmer weather.

READING LIST:

There are no books, other than genealogical works, on the area of
present-day Oconee County during the early antebellum period. A
variety of information about this period has been and continues to be
published in The Journal of the Oconee County Historical Society.