A National Historic Landmark, the plantation is noted as the largest assemblage of high-style pisé (rammed earth) structures in the United States.

[5] Stateburg was originally called Stateborough, as when the town was laid out, Borough House was the only residence in it.

[6] In 1850–1852, Dr. Anderson chaired the committee that built the Church of the Holy Cross of rammed earth across the road from Borough Hall.

In 1851, Joel Roberts Poinsett, physician, American statesman and botanist (for whom the poinsettia is named), died while visiting Dr. Anderson.

[1][3] It is also part of the defined Stateburg Historic District, as is the Church of the Holy Cross.