Hephzibah Jenkins Townsend's Tabby Oven Ruins is a historic archaeological site located at Edisto Island,

Charleston County, South Carolina Charleston County is located in the U.S. state of South Carolina along the Atlantic coast. As of the 2020 census, its population was 408,235, making it the third most populous county in South Carolina (behind Greenville and Richland counties). ...

. The remains represent what was essentially a commercial bakery. The tabby ovens were built about 1815; tabby is a type of concrete. The site consists of ''in situ'' tabby walls and foundations, as well as portions of fallen walls and tabby rubble. The oven's products were sold at Charleston by Hephzibah Jenkins Townsend of

Bleak Hall Plantation Botany Bay Heritage Preserve & Wildlife Management Area is a state preserve on Edisto Island, South Carolina. Botany Bay Plantation was formed in the 1930s from the merger of the Colonial-era Sea Cloud Plantation and Bleak Hall Plantation. In ...

to support the mission work of

Edisto Island Baptist Church Edisto Island Baptist Church is a historic African-American Baptist church on Edisto Island in Charleston County, South Carolina. Built in 1818, it is a two-story church sheathed in beaded weatherboard with a medium pitched gable roof. An addit ...

. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

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