Boykin Mill Complex, also known as Mill Tract Plantation, is a national

historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from c ...

located near Camden,

Kershaw County, South Carolina Kershaw County is a county located in the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2020 census, its population was 65,403. The county seat and largest city is Camden. The county was created in 1791 from parts of Claremont, Lancaster, Fairfie ...

. The district encompasses nine contributing buildings, two contributing sites, and four contributing structures. “Boykin Mill” denotes a community which consists of an old post office (ca. 1875), an old general store (c. 1905), a c. 1905

grist mill A gristmill (also: grist mill, corn mill, flour mill, feed mill or feedmill) grinds cereal grain into flour and Wheat middlings, middlings. The term can refer to either the Mill (grinding), grinding mechanism or the building that holds it. Grist i ...

, mill pond, mill dam, gates, and canals. The community also includes an early 19th-century

Greek Revival The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but ...

style Baptist church (c. 1827), one mid-19th-century residence, three 20th-century residences (c. 1935) built for mill workers, and a smoke house. An

American Civil War The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States. It was fought between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), the latter formed by states th ...

battle site is also a part of the Boykin Mill community. The

Battle of Boykin's Mill Boykin's Mill was the site of the last Union (American Civil War), Union officer killed in action during the American Civil War. It was also the location of the final battle on South Carolina soil. History Brigadier General Edward E. Potter took ...

took place on April 17, 1865. It was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 1992.

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Boykin's Mill Complex, Boykin, S.C.
Agricultural buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina Greek Revival church buildings in South Carolina Camden, South Carolina Buildings and structures in Kershaw County, South Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Kershaw County, South Carolina {{KershawCountySC-NRHP-stub