title: Mount Hope (Ridgeway, South Carolina)
text: # 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 (c. 1850) and a tenant house (c. 1875). 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.
  
  