Pee Dee River Rice Planters Historic District

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Pee Dee River Rice Planters Historic District
File:Dirleton Plantation, Road S-22-52 vicinity, Georgetown vicinity (Georgetown County, South Carolina).jpg
Dirleton Plantation, HABS Photo, October 1977
Pee Dee River Rice Planters Historic District is located in South Carolina
Pee Dee River Rice Planters Historic District
Location Along the Pee Dee and Waccamaw Rivers, near Georgetown, South Carolina
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Area 5,100 acres (2,100 ha)
Architectural style No Style Listed, Gothic
MPS Georgetown County Rice Culture MPS
NRHP Reference # 88000532[1]
Added to NRHP October 3, 1988

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.

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.[2][3]

The Pee Dee River Rice Planters Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.[1]

See also

References

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