Upstate Forever
Conservation Agreements

Four Columns

      Robert and Marie Gregory granted to Upstate Forever a conservation agreement preserving the historic Four Columns property, which adjoins Fairview Farms. The property is the site of the Battle of Earle's Ford, an important Revolutionary War battle that was won by the Patriots on July 15, 1780. The house, with its distinctive four white columns, has an elegance of style and a grandeur of scale rarely found in antebellum homes in the Upstate. The agreement allows the owners to maintain, and expand by no more than 50 per cent, the existing structures on the property and to build a few minor structures. No other development is permitted.

"Marie and I feel more like trustees of this property than owners. It's very important to us that this wonderful place remain protected long after we're gone." Robert Gregory