Kensington Plantation Archaeological Site	Kensington Plantation Oak Avenue	Kensington Plantation Overseer's House	Midway Plantation Rice Reserve	Hyde Park Plantation House
Hyde Park Plantation Rice Fields	Bossis Plantation House	Bossis Plantation Oak Avenue	Richmond Plantation House	Richmond Plantation Stable/Carriage House
Richmond Plantation Kennel	Richmond Plantation Log Cabin	Richmond Plantation Oak Avenue	Richmond Plantation Formal Garden	Richmond Plantation Cemetery
Comingtee Plantation House Ruins	Comingtee Plantation Rice Mill Ruins	Comingtee Plantation Archaeological Site	Rice Hope Plantation House	Strawberry Plantation House

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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.

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