Selkirk Farm
building in Dillon County, South Carolina, United States
Selkirk Farm, also known as the Reverend James A. Cousar House, is a historic home located near Bingham, Dillon County, South Carolina. It was built in 1858, with additions made between 1880 and 1910, and is a one-story, clapboard Greek Revival style cottage of heart pine. The front façade features a pedimented porch with four square columns. The house rests on brick foundation pillars. The property also includes an antebellum cotton gin and a well.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Selkirk Farm” as building in Dillon County, South Carolina, United States. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as building in Dillon County, South Carolina, United States. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16899968. Authority coordinates are 34.468, -79.504. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1858, 1880, 1910 and 1974.
Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
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This entry incorporates text from “Selkirk Farm” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.