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Sunnyside (Edisto Island, South Carolina)
Sunnyside, also known as the Townsend Mikell House, is a historic Plantation house in the Southern United States, plantation house located at Edisto Island, South Carolina, Edisto Island, Charleston County, South Carolina. The main house was built about 1875, and is a -story, rectangular, frame, weatherboard-clad residence. It features a mansard roof topped by a cupola and one-story, hipped roof wraparound porch. Also on the property are the tabby foundation of a cotton gin; two small, rectangular, one-story, gable roof, weatherboard-clad outbuildings; a -story barn; and the Sunnyside Plantation Foreman's House. The Foreman's House is a two-story, weatherboard-clad, frame residence built about 1867. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, with a boundary increase in 1994. References External links * * * * * * Plantation houses in South Carolina Historic American Buildings Survey in South Carolina Houses on the National Register of Historic Plac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edisto Island, South Carolina
Edisto Island is one of South Carolina's Sea Islands, the larger part of which lies in Charleston County, with its southern tip in Colleton County. The town of Edisto Beach is in Colleton County, while the Charleston County part of the island is unincorporated. The island, the town, and the Edisto River are named after the historic Edistow people, a Native American sub-tribe of the Cusabo Indians, who inhabited the island as well as nearby mainland areas. History Indigenous peoples often had fishing camps on the islands, using them seasonally. The historic Edisto people are known to have occupied the island as well as mainland areas and traded with the upcountry Catawba. The sub-tribe became extinct during the colonial period. The Wassamasaw Tribe of Varnertown Indians is a group of descendants of various tribes, including Edisto, who intermarried and who have occupied a settlement between Summerville and Moncks Corner in Berkeley County, South Carolina. In 2009 they gained sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |