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.Historic features
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.
They include:
- Hasty Point,
- Breakwater,
- Belle Rive,
- Exchange,
- Rosebank,
- Chicora Wood Plantation,
- Guendalos,
- Enfield,
- Birdfield,
- Arundel Plantation,
- Springfield,
- Dirleton
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 ;
- Two rice barns ;
- Collections of plantation outbuildings ;
- Rice mill and chimney ;
- 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.
