National Register of Historic Places

Pee Dee River Rice Planters Historic District (Additional Documentation)

Georgetown, Georgetown County, South Carolina
Listed
October 2, 1988
Type
District
Period
Listed
Ref No.
88000532

About this property

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. The district encompasses 10 contributing building, 16 contributing sites, and 34 contributing structures. It includes extant buildings, structures, and ricefields associated with 12 rice plantations located along the Pee Dee River. These plantations were part of a large rice culture in the county which flourished from about 1750 to about 1910. Four plantation houses (at Exchange, Rosebank, Chicora Wood, and Dirleton); Collections of plantation outbuildings (at Chicora Wood and Arundel); 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. National Register of Historic Places listings in Georgetown County, South Carolina Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. SC-631-A, "Arundel Plantation, Slave Cabin, Intersection of Routes 701 & 4, Georgetown, Georgetown County, SC", 17 photos, 3 color transparencies, 3 data pages, 2 photo caption pages Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. SC-477, "Dirleton Plantation, Road S-22-52 vicinity, Georgetown, Georgetown County, SC", 2 photos, 1 photo caption page Media related to Pee Dee River Rice Planters Historic District at Wikimedia Commons

Location

Georgetown, Georgetown County, South Carolina
33.50510, -79.16860

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When was Pee Dee River Rice Planters Historic District (Additional Documentation) listed on the National Register?

Pee Dee River Rice Planters Historic District (Additional Documentation) was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 2, 1988.

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Pee Dee River Rice Planters Historic District (Additional Documentation) is classified as a district in the National Register of Historic Places.

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