Walnut Grove Plantation is on land granted in 1763 by King George III to Charles Moore when the area was known as the backcountry. The documented collection of antique furnishings and accessories vividly portrays living conditions in Spartanburg County prior to 1805.

The main house has double shouldered chimneys, clapboard-over-log construction and Queen Anne mantles. The other buildings include Rocky Spring Academy, a separate kitchen, blacksmith's forge, wheat house, smoke house, barn, well house and Dr. Andrew Barry Moore's office.

Guided tours are given of the manor house, kitchen and academy, one of the first schools in the area. Other buildings on the site include a blacksmith's forge, a wheat house, a smoke house, a barn sheltering a Conestoga wagon, and a well house.