Pee Dee River Rice Planters Historic District
Historic district in South Carolina, United States
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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.
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Pee Dee River Rice Planters Historic District | |
Dirleton Plantation, HABS Photo, October 1977 | |
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| Location | Along the Pee Dee and Waccamaw Rivers, near Georgetown, South Carolina; also 1 Ave. of Live Oaks |
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| Coordinates | 33°12′09″N 79°19′58″W |
| Area | 5,100 acres (2,100 ha) |
| Architectural style | Gothic |
| MPS | Georgetown County Rice Culture MPS |
| NRHP reference No. | 88000532[1] (original) 100005674 (increase) |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | October 3, 1988 |
| Boundary increase | October 16, 2020 |
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]
