The original structure that now houses Annie's Inn was a three story Greek Revival plantation home. Built in the early 1800s, it had shotgun halls with no bathrooms and the kitchen was located out back in a separate building. The large rooms with ten and a half foot ceilings and eight fireplaces made it necessary to have live in help who resided on the third story. All of the timber
used in building the house and its numerous out buildings was grown here on the land and milled in their own lumber mill, including the
original heart pine plank floors.
Truly an antebellum structure it survived the Civil War, but not without some scars. In
February 1865 federal cavalry troops under the command of Brig. Gen. Hugh Kilpatrick entered what is now Aiken County near White Pond.
