Pegues Place

{{short description|Historic house in South Carolina, United States}} {{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox NRHP | name = Pegues Place | nrhp_type = | image = Pegues Place.jpg | caption = Pegues Place, December 2012 | location = North of Wallace, off U.S. Route 1, near Wallace, South Carolina | coordinates = {{coord|34|48|02|N|79|54|40|W|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = South Carolina#USA | built = c. {{Start date|1770}} | added = January 25, 1971 | area = {{convert|14|acre}} | refnum = 71000790<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref> }}

'''Pegues Place''', also known as the Claudius Pegues House, is a historic home located near Wallace, Marlboro County, South Carolina. It was built about 1770, and is a two-story Georgian white frame house with a one-story, full façade porch. A wing was added in the late-19th century. Also on the property are contributing barns, a cotton gin, wash house, log smoke house, carriage house, and greenhouse. On May 3, 1781, it was the site of the only agreement for the exchange of prisoners of war signed by Lt. Col. Edward Carrington (for Gen. Nathanael Greene) and Capt. Frederick Cornwallis (for Gen. Earl Cornwallis).<ref name = nrhpinv>{{Cite web | author =Mrs. James W. Fant | title = Pegues Place | work = National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory | date = August 1970 | url = http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/marlboro/S10817735008/S10817735008.pdf | format = pdf | accessdate = 24 July 2012}}</ref><ref name = scdah>{{Cite web | title = Pegues Place, Marlboro County (S.C. Sec. Rd. 266, Wallace vicinity) | work = National Register Properties in South Carolina | publisher = South Carolina Department of Archives and History | url = http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/marlboro/S10817735008/index.htm | accessdate = 24 July 2012}}</ref>

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.<ref name=nris/>

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Category:Houses completed in 1770 Category:Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina Category:Georgian architecture in South Carolina Category:National Register of Historic Places in Marlboro County, South Carolina Category:Houses in Marlboro County, South Carolina Category:1770 establishments in South Carolina