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This
whatnot was given to the hewn-timber cabins collection in
1995 by Robert Gordon Vernon, Jr. because
it was made by African Americans at Mars Bluff. Amelia Wallace recalled that her
grandmother, Louisa Jane Pearce, told of going into the
woods with her father, Dr. Robert Harllee, to select a
tree for the construction of a washstand, and at the same
time they selected a maple for the construction of this
whatnot. It was constructed
on Melrose Plantation, which was in Mars Bluff, just north
of Jefferies Creek. The whatnot is housed in the Mars
Bluff Room, Rogers Library, Francis Marion University. (Photo courtesy of Walter
Wallace Sallenger, 1997.) |
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