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Daufuskie Island Historic District, Beaufort County (Daufuskie Island)
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Haig's Point
Lighthouse
Mt. Cameral
Baptist Church
Janie Hamilton
School
Hudson House First Union
African Baptist
Church
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One Room
School
Mary Field
School
Daufuskie School Single Pen
House
Union Sisters and
Brothers Oyster
Society Hall
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Roller House Mary Field
Cemetery
Bloody Point
Lighthouse
Mary Dunn
Cemetery
Martin House
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North-South
Road
Bloody Point Haig Point
Wick House
Cooper River
Cemetery
Smith House
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Washington House Robinson House Grant House Hamilton House

Daufuskie Island Historic District includes the geographic entirety of this South Carolina sea island. Accessible only by boat, Daufuskie contains 5,200 acres of mostly high dry land. The district’s character is defined by eighteen properties of particular historic and/or architectural note, and fifty-six contributing sites or structures. Wooded tracts account for another 167 contributing properties. Most of the buildings consist of folk housing, which is concentrated in two building complexes, both on the island’s western side. They were constructed from 1890-1930, but reflect a much earlier building technology. They are significant architecturally as a survival form. The buildings also include educational, religious, and public buildings which serve the whole population. The design of Daufuskie’s two lighthouses has architectural significance in its structural combination of a functioning lighthouse with living quarters. Other areas of significance are historical in nature. Military engagements of note during the Yemassee and Revolutionary Wars took place on Daufuskie. In addition, buildings, sites, and structures represent Daufuskie’s antebellum plantation society based on the cultivation of long staple cotton as well as the history of the island in the early twentieth century when life revolved around the oyster industry, logging, and truck farming operations. Daufuskie’s cultural resources illustrate a three-century long history (ca. 1700-1930) that has evolved with a minimum of outside influence. Listed in the National Register June 2, 1982.

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