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The Edgar Fripp house, also known as Tidalholm, is a large home built in Beaufort in 1853. Mr. Fripp built this home as a summer retreat, as did many of the plantation owners during the antebellum period. Heat and mosquitoes made life very intolerable on St Helena. The home was enjoyed by the Fripp family up until the Civil War. When Union troops occupied Beaufort on November 7th, 1861, Tidalholm was among the mansions seized by the Union and served as Union Hospital #7 during the occupation of Beaufort.