This is a List of National Historic Landmarks in South Carolina, United States. The United States'

National Historic Landmark A National Historic Landmark (NHL) is a building, district, object, site, or structure that is officially recognized by the United States government for its outstanding historical significance. Only some 2,500 (~3%) of over 90,000 places listed ...

(NHL) program is operated under the auspices of the

National Park Service The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government within the U.S. Department of the Interior that manages all national parks, most national monuments, and other natural, historical, and recreational propertie ...

, and recognizes buildings, sites, structures, districts, and objects according to a list of criteria of national significance. There are 76 NHLs in

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and 3 additional National Park Service-administered areas of primarily historic importance. Architects whose work is recognized by two or more separate NHLs in the state are: * Robert Mills (8 sites), * Edward Brickell White (4 sites), *

Gabriel Manigault Gabriel Manigault (March 17, 1758 – November 4, 1809) was an American architect. Early life Manigault was born in Charleston, South Carolina on March 17, 1758. He was the son of Elizabeth Wragg Manigault (1736–1773) and Peter Manigault (1 ...

(3 sites), and *

William Wallace Anderson William Wallace Anderson was a medical doctor who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1846 with a Bachelor of Arts and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1849. He was also involved in architecture of rammed earth con ...

(2 sites). These tallies do not include any buildings that are

contributing properties In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, or structure which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic distri ...

within

historic districts 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 cer ...

unless they are also individually designated as NHLs. There are five places listed for their association with artists and writers.Places associated with an artist or writer are:

Atalaya and Brookgreen Gardens Atalaya and Brookgreen Gardens is a National Historic Landmark District encompassing two formerly-united properties associated with sculptor Anna Hyatt Huntington (1876-1973) on the coast of Georgetown County, South Carolina. The district include ...

/Anna Huntington;

Dubose Heyward House The Dubose Heyward House is a historic house at 76 Church Street in Charleston, South Carolina. Now a wing of a larger house, this modest two-story structure was the home from 1919 to 1924 of author Dubose Heyward (1885–1940), author of '' Po ...

/Dubose Heyward;

Clark Mills Studio The Charleston, South Carolina studio of sculptor Clark Mills (December 13, 1810 – January 12, 1883), was his first—he worked there from 1837 to 1848, when he moved to Washington, DC. The Charleston studio was designated as a National Histor ...

/Clark Mills;

Mulberry Plantation (James and Mary Boykin Chesnut House) Mulberry Plantation, also known as the James and Mary Boykin Chesnut House is a historic plantation at 559 Sumter Highway ( United States Route 521) south of Camden, South Carolina. Declared a National Historic Landmark in 2000, it is signific ...

Mary Boykin Chesnut Mary Boykin Chesnut (née Miller) (March 31, 1823 – November 22, 1886) was an American author noted for a book published as her Civil War diary, a "vivid picture of a society in the throes of its life-and-death struggle."Woodward, C. Vann. "In ...

;

Woodlands Woodlands may back refer to: * Woodland, a low-density forest Geography Australia * Woodlands, New South Wales * Woodlands, Ashgrove, Queensland, a heritage-listed house associated with John Henry Pepper * Woodlands, Marburg, Queensland, a her ...

William Gilmore Simms William Gilmore Simms (April 17, 1806 – June 11, 1870) was an American writer and politician from the American South who was a "staunch defender" of slavery. A poet, novelist, and historian, his ''History of South Carolina'' served as the defin ...

There are four World War II-era museum ships; all are located at Patriot's Point in Charleston Harbor.

Current NHLs in South Carolina

The 76 NHLs in South Carolina are distributed across 16 of the 46 counties in the state; 42 of the 76 are located in Charleston County.

Historic areas of the National Park System in South Carolina

National Historic Sites, National Historic Parks, National Memorials, and certain other areas listed in the National Park system are historic landmarks of national importance that are highly protected already, often before the inauguration of the NHL program in 1960, and are then often not also named NHLs ''per se''. There are five of these in South Carolina. The National Park Service lists these five together with the NHLs in the state,These are listed on p.114 of "National Historic Landmarks Survey: List of National Historic Landmarks by State" The

Charles Pinckney National Historic Site The Charles Pinckney National Historic Site is a unit of the United States National Park Service, preserving a portion of Charles Pinckney's Snee Farm plantation and country retreat. The site is located at 1254 Long Point Road, Mount Pleasant, ...

(also known as Snee Farm) and

Ninety Six National Historic Site Ninety Six National Historic Site, also known as Old Ninety Six and Star Fort, is a United States National Historic Site located about 60 miles (96 kilometers) south of Greenville, South Carolina. The historic site was listed on the National R ...

are also NHLs and are listed above. The remaining three are:

Former NHLs in South Carolina

The nuclear-powered commercial vessel

NS Savannah NS ''Savannah'' was the first nuclear-powered merchant ship. She was built in the late 1950s at a cost of $46.9 million (including a $28.3 million nuclear reactor and fuel core) and launched on July 21, 1959. She was funded by Unite ...

was moved to

Virginia Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. The geography and climate of the Commonwealth ar ...

Piedmont Number One Piedmont Number One is a former textile plant and former National Historic Landmark in Piedmont, Greenville County, South Carolina. It burned in 1983. Piedmont Manufacturing Company The Piedmont Manufacturing Company was established by Henry Pi ...

, a historic

textile mill Textile Manufacturing or Textile Engineering is a major industry. It is largely based on the conversion of fibre into yarn, then yarn into fabric. These are then dyed or printed, fabricated into cloth which is then converted into useful goods ...

, burned in 1983.

References

External links

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National Historic Landmarks program, at National Park ServiceSouth Carolina Department of Archives and History: The National Register of Historic Places - Search Records by County

National Register Information System
National Park Service. {{DEFAULTSORT:National Historic Landmarks in South Carolina

South Carolina-related lists

National Historic Landmarks A National Historic Landmark (NHL) is a building, district, object, site, or structure that is officially recognized by the United States government for its outstanding historical significance. Only some 2,500 (~3%) of over 90,000 places listed ...

Current NHLs in South Carolina

Historic areas of the National Park System in South Carolina

Former NHLs in South Carolina

See also

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