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. and Accompanying map
The Pee Dee River Rice Planters Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Georgetown County, South Carolina
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