House of Cypress

“The most that can be learned around here about this old place is that it was a grant of land from the king of England to the first Cuthbert who came to this country.  The house is made of cypress (pine) and built high off the ground.  It is surrounded by great oaks, moss draped.  However, old residents say these trees are not very old nor nearly so beautiful as those which were destroyed at this loin the ’93[1893] storm.

The Cuthberts are said to have been border people, living between Scotland and England, and ardent Royalists.  There is a story handed down, authentic or otherwise, of how one of the Cuthberts used to stand upon his porch and play his fiddle, while the squirrels in the surrounding tress sat upon their respective limbs to listen.

The point has changed hands many times.  When Harold Scheper lived there, a young enthusiast, he planted 700 fig trees which he planned to develop commercially, and also a dairy.  However, the trees were not successful and he later gave them to Gen. Eli K. Cole, now dead, of Parris island.”

–Northern Money, Southern Land, p56