Claudia Phelps founded the Garden Club of Aiken, and she also held a meeting at Rose Hill that led to the establishment of the Garden Club of South Carolina in April 1930. “Rose Hill really is a ...

A local entrepreneur plans to reopen Rose Hill to the public after the former Winter Colony estate failed to find a new owner during a foreclosure sale July 1 at the Aiken County Judicial Center.

Rose Hill Plantation State Historic Site, less than an hour’s drive south of Spartanburg, was once the home of South Carolina Gov. William Henry Gist. Gist, a successful cotton planter ...