LODGE PLANTATION AT WAYNESVILLE - BUILT IN 1825
Located one mile north of Waynesville on the Browntown Road
The Lodge Plantation: Picture provided by Earl Knox
The Lodge Plantation land, consisting of 319 acres was granted to Amos
Roberts in 1802 by the King of England.(sic) It was sold to James
Hamilton Couper in 1825, and it was Mr. Couper that constructed the
Lodge Plantation house, seen above. The property was later sold to
Major Leighton Hazelhurst in 1874, and again to James L. McVeigh in
1899. Norman Shaw McVeigh Sr. was born in this house
in 1900, and Norman Shaw McVeigh Jr., in 1924. This old home was
in the McVeigh family for over 75 years
We understand that Neil and Dewey Paulk bought The
Lodge about 1981. Now locally known as The Henry House, it remains largely
unchanged. The square structure was two story, four bedrooms and
was built as a summer-time retreat which the St. Simon's Couper family
used to evade the island mosquitoes carrying deadly malaria. It
had shutter windows, and it originally had large porches which extended on both sides,
and were enclosed with latticework (trellises on porch are long gone). It is located
about one mile north of Waynesville. Note: The kitchen in the back of this old Lodge
building had caught fire and burned, and was built back.
Sources of Information: Varied, but includes The Brantley Enterprise
