Pee Dee River Rice Planters Historic District is a set of historic rice

plantation A plantation is an agricultural estate, generally centered on a plantation house, meant for farming that specializes in cash crops, usually mainly planted with a single crop, with perhaps ancillary areas for vegetables for eating and so on. The ...

properties and 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 Georgetown,

Georgetown County, South Carolina Georgetown County is a county located in the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 63,404. Its county seat is Georgetown. The county was founded in 1769. It is named for George III of the United Kingdom. Geor ...

Historic features

The district encompasses 10 contributing building, 16 contributing sites, and 34 contributing structures.

Pee Dee River plantations

It includes extant buildings, structures, and ricefields associated with 12 rice plantations located along the

Pee Dee River The Pee Dee River, also known as the Great Pee Dee River, is a river in the Carolinas of the United States. It originates in the Appalachian Mountains in North Carolina, where its upper course, above the mouth of the Uwharrie River The Uwharri ...

.
They include: *Hasty Point, *Breakwater, *Belle Rive, *Exchange, *Rosebank, *

Chicora Wood Plantation The Chicora Wood Plantation (originally known as Matanzas) is a former rice plantation in Georgetown County, South Carolina. The plantation itself was established sometime between 1732 and 1736 and the 1819 plantation house still exists today. ...

, *Guendalos, *Enfield, *Birdfield, *Arundel Plantation, *Springfield, *Dirleton

Waccamaw River plantations

It also includes five rice plantations located along the

Waccamaw River The Waccamaw River is a river, approximately 140 miles (225 km) long, in southeastern North Carolina and eastern South Carolina in the United States. It drains an area of approximately 1,110 square miles (2886 km²) in the coastal plain ...

: *Turkey Hill, *Oatland, *Willbrook, *Litchfield, *Waverly

Rice planters culture

These plantations were part of a large rice culture in the county which flourished from about 1750 to about 1910. This district includes: * Four

plantation house A plantation house is the main house of a plantation, often a substantial farmhouse, which often serves as a symbol for the plantation as a whole. Plantation houses in the Southern United States and in other areas are known as quite grand and e ...

s (at Exchange, Rosebank, Chicora Wood, and Dirleton); * Two rice barns (at Hasty Point and Exchange); * Collections of plantation outbuildings (at Chicora Wood and Arundel); * Rice mill and chimney (at Chicora Wood); * Historic ricefields with canals, dikes, and trunks. The plantation houses are all frame houses with a central hall plan. an
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/ref> The Pee Dee River Rice Planters Historic District 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 1988.

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