Mount Hope (Ridgeway, South Carolina)


Mount Hope is a historic home located near Ridgeway, Fairfield County, South Carolina. It was built about 1836, and is a 1 1/2-story, vernacular weatherboarded building on a raised brick basement. It has a gable roof and three pedimented dormers. Also on the property are a frame smoke house and a tenant house. It was the home of Dr. John Peyre Thomas, a prominent physician and amateur scientist.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.