[Scmusenet] Saturday at the Seay House, May 16, 11-5

[Seay House]

Please help us promote The Seay House.  We're open to the public this
Saturday, May 16, from 11:00-5:00.  See details below.  Pictures are
available on our website: www.spartanburghistory.org/seayhouse.php.

Thanks,
Becky Slayton
Executive Director, Spartanburg County Historical Association, 864-278-9664
Administrator, Walnut Grove Plantation & Price House, 864-576-6546

PRESS RELEASE
Saturday at The Seay House
May 16, 2009
11:00-5:00

Join us this Saturday at The Seay House, Spartanburg's oldest home.  Located
at 106 Darby Road just off Crescent Avenue, this home showcases the dwelling
of a local farmstead managed and maintained by three maiden Seay sisters in
the late 1800s.  Come relax for an hour or two on this historic property!
Visit www.spartanburghistory.org, email seayhouse at spartanburghistory.org, or
call 864-596-3501 for more information.

The Seay House is open by appointment year-round and on the 3rd Saturday of
the summer months except July.  Sponsors allow us to open at no charge to
the public, though donations do help us maintain the property.  Two local
professors, Dr. Melissa Walker of Converse College, and Dr. Charles Reback
of USC Upstate, have sponsored May's Saturday at the Seay House.  The Seay
House is one of 3 historic homes maintained by the Spartanburg County
Historical Association.

General Information:
The Seay House is the oldest house in the city limits of Spartanburg.
Although a definite construction date for the log portion has not been
established, evidence indicates that it was built prior to 1850.  Two of the
frame additions made to the home in the late 19th century still remain.  The
oldest portion of the house is a typical Scots-Irish, one room,
one-and-a-half story, log house.  The logs are hand hewn, and the foundation
consists of fieldstone.  The pipestem chimney, also made of fieldstone, is a
style commonly found in Virginia but quite unusual for upstate South
Carolina.

The Seay House is a modest home and reflects the kind of life that the
majority of the settlers in Spartanburg County and the Carolina Backcountry
lived.  Interpretation at the Seay House focuses on the lives of women in
the late 19th and early 20th centuries.  This was a farmstead, and the three
daughters of Kinsman Seay - Ruthy, Patsy, and Sarah - who lived in this
house up to the times of their deaths lived a simple farm life.  While today
this home is largely surrounded by a modern neighborhood, when you step onto
the grounds you can begin to imagine what it must have been like to live
without electricity or running water, to grow and raise your own food, and
to make your own clothing.
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