Historic Winyah Bay home for sale for almost $15M

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A house once owned by a Revolutionary War general is on the market.

The 957-acre South Carolina property originally built by Brig. Gen. Peter Horry and located on Winyah Bay is for sale at $14.75 million.

According to a news release from TopTenDeals.com, the home was rebuilt in 1949 by Cornelia Sage, a woman considered to be a pioneer in saving historic homes.

Horry was a South Carolina planter who joined Francis “Swamp Fox” Marion in a campaign of guerilla warfare against British troops during the Revolutionary War. He fought at the Battle of Fort Moultrie and commanded a light horse regiment at the Battle of Quinby Bridge. After the war, he retired to his plantation, Dover, and served in South Carolina’s Senate and House of Representatives, the news release stated.

Dover’s main house was built in the early 1800s but was destroyed by fire and later reconstructed by Sage who, along with husband Henry, bought the property in the early 1900s, the release said. Cornelia Sage was a pioneer of deconstructing and reconstructing historic homes, carefully maintaining the original materials and workmanship. She built her new home in 1949, mostly from parts of other homes, including the historic Woodlawn Plantation house that had previously been disassembled to make way for the Depression-era Santee Cooper Lakes project near Charleston. Sage had the disassembled house moved down the Santee River to Dover to keep it from being flooded. She then had it reassembled into the current home.

The listing is held by Elliott Davenport of The Wings Group and Alex Webel of Hall and Hall.