 It is one of only a handful of remaining early American residences whose exterior walls are made entirely of tabby.Thomas Fuller, a rice and cotton planter, built this house, first known as the Fuller mansion, as a wedding gift to his bride, Elizabeth Middleton.Descended from Henry Woodward, the first English settler in South Carolina, Elizabeth was a member of three of the most prominent colonial South Carolina families—the Barnwells, the Bulls, and the Middletons.