Archived in the Mary Stevenson Collection at Clemson University Library’s Special Collection and Archives is an article by Jerry Alexander, “Historic Keowee Plantation,” from an unidentified and undated newspaper, which speaks of the traces of the house that remained when this article was written (“Keowee, Home of John Ewing Colhoun and Graveyard,” box 15, folder 42, mss 353). The article notes that the Keowee Heights house burned at some point in the 19th century and all that remains of it is brick from the huge white columns of its front porch and stone from the foundation. Jerry Alexander also notes that the family cemetery near the plantation house has been vandalized and the tombstone of John E. Colhoun broken by vandals.