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Laurel Bay Plantation, also known as Woodward Plantation and Tabby Ruin Site, is a historic
archaeological site An archaeological site is a place (or group of physical sites) in which evidence of past activity is preserved (either prehistoric or historic or contemporary), and which has been, or may be, investigated using the discipline of archaeology an ...
located near
Beaufort Beaufort may refer to: People and titles * Beaufort (surname) * House of Beaufort, English nobility * Duke of Beaufort (England), a title in the peerage of England * Duke of Beaufort (France), a title in the French nobility Places Polar regions ...
,
Beaufort County, South Carolina Beaufort County ( ) is a county in the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2020 census, its population was 187,117. Its county seat is Beaufort. Beaufort County is part of the Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Beaufort, SC Metropolitan Statist ...
. The site contains artifacts associated with domestic outbuilding activities related to either or both Laurel Bay Plantation (–1779) and Woodward Plantation (–1861). Features present at the site include sections of two
tabby A tabby is any domestic cat (''Felis catus'') with a distinctive 'M'-shaped marking on its forehead; stripes by its eyes and across its cheeks, along its back, and around its legs and tail; and (differing by tabby type), characteristic striped, d ...
walls, a tabby structure foundation, two depressions, two brick piles, and a shell pile. It was listed in 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 1994.


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Plantations in South Carolina Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Beaufort County, South Carolina Houses in Beaufort, South Carolina Tabby buildings {{AfricanAmerican-stub