Suvarna Garge (Editor)

Pee Dee River Rice Planters Historic District

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Architectural style
  
Gothic

Area
  
20.64 km²

NRHP Reference #
  
88000532

Added to NRHP
  
3 October 1988

Pee Dee River Rice Planters Historic District httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthu

Location
  
Along the Pee Dee and Waccamaw Rivers, near Georgetown, South Carolina

MPS
  
Georgetown County Rice Culture MPS

Pee Dee River Rice Planters Historic District is a set of historic rice plantation properties and national historic district located near Georgetown, Georgetown County, South Carolina.

Contents

Historic features

The district encompasses 10 contributing building, 16 contributing sites, and 34 contributing structures.

Pee Dee River plantations

It includes extant buildings, structures, and ricefields associated with 12 rice plantations located along the Pee Dee River.
They include:

  • Hasty Point,
  • Breakwater,
  • Belle Rive,
  • Exchange,
  • Rosebank,
  • Chicora Wood Plantation,
  • Guendalos,
  • Enfield,
  • Birdfield,
  • Arundel Plantation,
  • Springfield,
  • Dirleton

    • Waccamaw River plantations

    It also includes five rice plantations located along the Waccamaw River:

  • Turkey Hill,
  • Oatland,
  • Willbrook,
  • Litchfield,
  • Waverly

    • Rice planters culture

    These plantations were part of a large rice culture in the county which flourished from about 1750 to about 1910.

    This district includes:

  • Four plantation houses (at Exchange, Rosebank, Chicora Wood, and Dirleton);
  • Two rice barns (at Hasty Point and Exchange);
  • Collections of plantation outbuildings (at Chicora Wood and Arundel);
  • Rice mill and chimney (at Chicora Wood);
  • Historic ricefields with canals, dikes, and trunks.

    • The plantation houses are all frame houses with a central hall plan.

    The Pee Dee River Rice Planters Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

    References

    Pee Dee River Rice Planters Historic District Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


    Similar Topics