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Pee Dee River Rice Planters' Historic District, Georgetown County
(between the Pee Dee and Waccamaw Rivers, E. of S.C. Sec. Rd. 52, Plantersville vicinity)
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Hasty Point Barn
Facade
Hasty Point Barn
Rear Elevation
Hasty Point Barn
River View
Exchange Plantation
Facade
Exchange Plantation
Left Oblique
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Exchange Plantation
Left Elevation
Exchange Plantation
Rice Barn
Rosebank Plantation
Facade
Rosebank Plantation
Rear Elevation
Chicora Wood
Plantation
Facade
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Chicora Wood
Plantation
Rice Barn
Arundel Plantation
Slave Cabin
Arundel Plantation
Commissary
Arundel Plantation
Smokehouse
Arundel Plantation
Watchman's Building
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Dirleton Plantation
Facade
Dirleton Plantation
River View

The Pee Dee River Planters Historic District includes extant buildings, structures, and ricefields associated with twelve rice plantations located along the Pee Dee River (Hasty Point, Breakwater, Belle Rive, Exchange, Rosebank, Chicora Wood, Guendalos, Enfield, Birdfield, Arundel, Springfield, Dirleton) and five rice plantations located along the Waccamaw River (Turkey Hill, Oatland, Willbrook, Litchfield, and Waverly). These plantations were part of a large rice culture in the county which flourished from ca.1750 to ca.1910. The rice culture produced most of the rice grown in South Carolina during that period when the colony, and later, the state, was the leader in rice production in America. This district includes four plantation houses (at Exchange, Rosebank, Chicora Wood, and Dirleton); two rice barns (at Hasty Point and Exchange); collections of plantation outbuildings (at Chicora Wood and Arundel); a rice mill and chimney (at Chicora Wood); and historic ricefields with canals, dikes, and trunks. The plantation houses are all frame houses with a central hall plan. Listed in the National Register October 3, 1988.

View a map showing the boundaries of the Pee Dee River Rice Planters' Historic District.

View the complete text of the nomination form for this National Register property. In addition, the Historic Resources of the Georgetown County Rice Culture, ca. 1750-ca. 1910 includes historical background information for this and other related National Register properties.

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