The Old Georgetown Road is a historic road section near
McClellanville, South Carolina
McClellanville is a small fishing town in rural Charleston County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 1,040 at the 2010 census. It is situated on the Atlantic coast, on land surrounded by Francis Marion National Forest, and has trad ...
, USA. It runs from the
Santee River
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The Santee River is a river in South Carolina in the United States, and is long. The Santee and its tributaries provide the principal drainage for the coastal areas of southeastern South Carolina and navigation for the central coastal plain of ...
to
South Carolina Highway 45
South Carolina Highway 45 (SC 45) is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of South Carolina. It serves as the main thoroughfare in northern Berkeley County.
Route description
History
Established as an original state highway in ...
, and is about in length. It is one of longest surviving unpaved sections of the
King's Highway King's Highway or Kings Highway may refer to:
Roads Australia
* Kings Highway (Australia), connecting Queanbeyan to Batemans Bay
Canada
* King's Highways, an alternative designation for the primary provincial highway system in Ontario
* King's ...
, a colonial-era road network that extended all the way from
Charleston, South Carolina
Charleston is the largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, and the principal city in the Charleston–North Charleston metropolitan area. The city lies just south of the geographical midpoint o ...
, to
Boston, Massachusetts.
The road 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 2014.
See also
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References
Roads on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Transportation in Charleston County, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Charleston County, South Carolina
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