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Homes and landmarks

Houses, birthplaces and buildings on the National Register. 300 places on the trail.

Colonial (pre-contact to 1763)

22-63Beneventum PlantationThe main house at Beneventum dates to c. 1755. It was likely commissioned by William Fyffe, a surgeon and Scottish emigr...
26-03Boundary HouseDuring the colonial era the Boundary House, on the S.C.-N.C. line 1.3 mi. SE, was both a private residence and "public h...
08-55Broom Hall PlantationBroom Hall Plantation, later called Bloom Hall and still later Bloomfield, was first granted to Edward Middleton in 1678...
07-46Daufuskie IslandThis 5,200-acre island lies between the Cooper and New Rivers. Spanish and English explorers saw it in 1521 and 1663; En...
10-119Fenwick PlantationFenwick Plantation began as a 3,000-acre tract purchased in 1721 by John Fenwick, an English planter. Fenwick had the tw...
10-40Hampton PlantationHampton Plantation, 2 mi. NW, was established by 1730 and was one of the earliest rice plantations on the Santee River, ...
39-12Hanover HouseHanover House, built 1714-16 in what is now Berkeley County and moved to the Clemson College campus in 1941, is a fine e...
22-48John and Mary Perry Cleland HouseThis house, one of Georgetown's earliest, was built ca. 1737 by John and Mary Perry Cleland. Mrs. Cleland inherited the ...
10-52Maybank GreenIn 1697 David Maybank II (1660-1713) acquired 200 acres along Hobcaw Creek from the Lords Proprietors. Maybank, a carpen...
08-04Mulberry PlantationOriginally granted to Sir Peter Colleton in 1679. Acquired in 1712 by Thomas Broughton, who erected the present mansion,...
08-85Nisbett HouseThis two-story wood frame building was built c.1725 for Alexander Nisbett of Dean, Scotland. It was originally the main ...
43-34Oakland PlantationThis plantation was established in 1735 with a royal grant to William Sanders, who built a house and tavern, or “publick...
10-105Pinckney MansionThe Pinckney Mansion was a Colonial double house built c.1746 at this site, then a large waterfront lot known as Colleto...
08-21Silk Hope PlantationHome and burial place of Sir Nathaniel Johnson, born in the County of Durham, England, in 1644; knighted in 1680, was a ...
08-65Steepbrook PlantationThis plantation was established in 1701 by a grant of 500 acres near Goose Creek to Lewis Lansac from the Lords Propriet...
10-15The Grand Lodge of Ancient Freemasons of South Carolina ANCIENT FREEMASONS The Grand Lodge of Ancient Freemasons of South CarolinaOrganized before August 18, 1737, this Grand Lodge met in Charles Shepheard's Tavern, an early meeting place of the colo...
36-08The Rock HouseOn December 7, 1756, the Council of the Colony recorded a petition of Jacob Hoffman for 200 acres of bounty land. He was...
08-64White House PlantationThe first plantation here was established in 1731 by Alexander Vanderdussen (d. 1759), British army officer and member o...

Era of American Revolution (1764-1783)

South Carolina in the Early Republic (1784-1815)

Antebellum (1816-1860)

Civil War (1861-1865)

Reconstruction (1866-1876)

New South (1877-1913)

World War I and the Interwar Period (1913-1941)

World War II and After (1941-present)

Battlefields, sites and undated markers

07-63TidalholmThis house was commissioned by Edgar Fripp (1806-1860) and completed c.1853. Based upon architect Samuel Sloan’s designs...