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MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (AP) — The National Park Service wants to demolish a run-down cottage at a South Carolina plantation once owned by one of the nation's founding fathers.
The agency is taking comments on plans to remove the caretaker cottage at the Charles Pinkney National Historic Site.
The site outside Charleston preserves part of a plantation once owned by Pinckney, who was an author and a signer of the U.S. Constitution.
The cottage was built in 1936 and before the National Park Service acquired the site in 1990 it had partially collapsed. Since then it has become overgrown with vegetation and officials say it's a safety hazard.
The agency plans to take more photographs to document the cottage before it's removed. The Park Service will then prepare an interpretive display for the Pinckney site.
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