The Adaline Wheatley House

Adaline Wheatley and her family used this cottage at Spocott for almost 100 years.The one-and-a-half story building predated her and was built between 1775 and 1825 as the original tenant house for Spocott, probably by the LeCompte family, which inhabited Spocott then. From 1845 until the start of the Civil War, John Anthony LeCompte Radcliffe’s brothers, William and Nehemiah, lived in the house while the threebrothers built schooners.

The Adaline Wheatley House circa 1800

After the Civil War, Adaline and Columbus Wheatley raised their large family in the house, which was used by her family members well into the 1950s. The house was initially constructed close to the main Spocott house and moved out to the end of Spocott lane during Adaline’s life. After she died in 1929, the house was moved back to the property's interior and then to the windmill complex in 1975.

Interior of Adaline’s House

Adaline was the cook, nurse, and part house manager at Spocott her entire life. She marries former Spocott enslaved worker, Columbus Wheatley, and they lived their whole lives at Spocott, raising their seven children. Columbus was John Anthony LeCompte Radcliffe’s most trusted worker, assisting him with farming and construction projects. Their descendants were still living in this house through the 1950s.

Adaline Wheatley c 1900

Adaline Wheatley House Sketch (Lee Weldon)