South Carolina Department of Archives and History
National Register Properties in South Carolina

Cooper River Historic District, Berkeley County
(along the East and West branches of the Cooper River, Moncks Corner vicinity)
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Cooper River Cooper River Cooper River Calais Milestone #20 Calais Milestone #19
S1081770800406 S1081770800407 S1081770800408 S1081770800409 S1081770800410
Calais Milestone #18 French Quarter
Creek Canal
Huguenot Society
of South Carolina
Marker
Blessing Plantation
House
Blessing Plantation
Rice Fields
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Blessing Plantation
African-American
Cemetery
Blessing Plantation
Steam Engine
Cherry Hill
Plantation
Rice Fields
Cherry Hill
Plantation
Rice Mill Chimney
Cherry Hill
Plantation
Steam Engine
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Campvere Plantation
Oak Avenue
Halidon Plantation
Quinby House
Halidon Plantation
Tidal Rice Fields
Halidon Plantation
Tidal Rice Fields
Halidon Plantation
Inland Rice Field
and Reserves

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The Cooper River Historic District, which is a 30,020-acre section of the region centered along both branches of the Cooper River, is a remarkably intact historic and cultural landscape. In the mid-eighteenth century, the Cooper River served not only as a principal transportation route for plantation goods, services and people, but also played a vital role in the successful production of rice. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries most of the plantations in the district were acquired by wealthy Northerners looking for a warmer climate in which they could create hunting preserves for their own pleasure and leisure-time activities. These new owners left their mark on the landscape by building stately new residences but they also played an important role in preserving the earlier landscape. Many historic buildings, structures, and objects from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries are still standing, and archaeological remains of settlements, machines, barns, and other structures that supported agricultural activity are generally intact. In addition, landscape features such as rice fields, banks, canals, dams, reservoirs or reserves, causeways, roads, avenues, upland fields, fence lines, and cemeteries – many of them present on eighteenth and early nineteenth century plats and maps – can be seen on the ground today. Numerous outbuildings are also included with several of the properties. Listed in the National Register February 5, 2003.

View a map showing the boundaries of the Cooper River Historic District.

View the complete text of the nomination form for this National Register property. (6.51MB)
In addition, the Historic Resources of the Cooper River, ca. 1670-ca. 1950 includes historical background information for this and other related National Register properties.

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