Pee Dee River Rice Planters Historic District

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.

Pee Dee River Rice Planters Historic District
Dirleton Plantation, HABS Photo, October 1977
LocationAlong the Pee Dee and Waccamaw Rivers, near Georgetown, South Carolina; also 1 Ave. of Live Oaks
Coordinates33°12′09″N 79°19′58″W
Area5,100 acres (2,100 ha)
Architectural styleGothic
MPSGeorgetown County Rice Culture MPS
NRHP reference No.88000532[1] (original)
100005674 (increase)
Significant dates
Added to NRHPOctober 3, 1988
Boundary increaseOctober 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]

See also

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. J. Tracy Power and Sherry Piland (September 1987). "Pee Dee River Rice Planters Historic District" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved 7 July 2012.
  3. "Pee Dee River Rice Planters' Historic District, Georgetown County (between the Pee Dee and Waccamaw Rivers, E. of S.C. Sec. Rd. 52, Plantersville vicinity)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 7 July 2012. and Accompanying map
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