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This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of South Carolina that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
September 25, 1991 [ 1] Designated NHL. April 27, 1992 [ 2] Evergreen Plantation is a plantation located on the west side of the Mississippi River in St. John the Baptist Parish, near Wallace, Louisiana, and along Louisiana Highway 18. The main house was constructed mostly in 1790, and renovated to its current Greek Revival style in 1832.
The South Carolina Historical Magazine. 108 (4): 318–320. JSTOR 27570920. Whitman, T. Stephen (2009). "Reviewed work: Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina, S. Max Edelson". The Georgia Historical Quarterly. 93 (1): 107–109. JSTOR 40585122. Young, Jeffrey Robert (2008). "Reviewed work: Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South ...
The John Drayton House at 2 Ladson St. in downtown Charleston, South Carolina was built after 1746 by John Drayton, the builder of Drayton Hall, and shows his preference for the Georgian Palladian style. For many decades, the house was thought to have been begun in 1738 and completed in 1752. In 2014, an examination of wood cores showed that ...
The commission purchased the adjacent Lace House for $67,000 in 1968, creating the Governor's Mansion Complex. In 1970, the South Carolina state legislature gave the commission the power to review improvements to the complex. In 1977, Ann Edwards, the governor's wife, initiated the Governor's Mansion Foundation, a not-for-profit organization to ...
Joshua John Ward, of Georgetown County, South Carolina, is known as the American slaveholder who owned the most slaves at one point, [1] dubbed "the king of the rice planters". [2] In 1850 he held 1,092 slaves; [2] Ward was the largest slaveholder in the United States before his death in 1853. In 1860 his heirs (his estate) held 1,130 or 1,131 ...
South Carolina had a record high of 2,316,712 people working and a 3.2% unemployment rate in March, according to the latest data available from the S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce.
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