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Hopsewee Plantation, also known as the Thomas Lynch, Jr., Birthplace or Hopsewee-on-the-Santee, is a plantation house built in 1735 near Georgetown, South Carolina, in the Lowcountry. It was the main house of a rice plantation and the birthplace of Thomas Lynch, Jr. , a Founding Father who was a signer of the Declaration of Independence .
Lynch's birthplace was the Hopsewee Plantation. It is on the National Register of Historic Places and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1971. In his 1856 book, Lives of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence , Rev. Charles A Goodrich lauds Lynch "as a man of exalted views and exalted moral worth".
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.
The Jonathan Lucas House in a Charleston postcard, about 1910. The Jonathan Lucas House is a historic house in Charleston, South Carolina.. Jonathan Lucas, Jr., the builder of the house, was born in England and developed milling machines for rice, which led to a boom in rice planting in South Carolina.
Hampton Plantation: McClellanville 1735 House The plantation is now operated as a state park. Hopsewee: South of Georgetown 1735 House Hext Tenements: 51-53 Tradd Street, Charleston 1736 [12] House Allston-Read House: 405 Front Street, Georgetown 1737 [13] House William Elliott House: 75 King Street, Charleston Before 1739 [14] House Thomas ...
Location of Georgetown County in South Carolina. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Georgetown County, South Carolina.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Georgetown County, South Carolina, United States.
Oakland Plantation (Fort Motte, South Carolina) Oakland Plantation House (Mount Pleasant, South Carolina) The Oaks (Frogmore, South Carolina) The Oaks (Winnsboro, South Carolina) Oakwood (Gadsden, South Carolina) Orange Grove (Dalzell, South Carolina) Orange Grove Plantation (Saint Helena Island, South Carolina) Otranto Plantation
This is a List of National Historic Landmarks in South Carolina, United States.The United States' National Historic Landmark (NHL) program is operated under the auspices of the National Park Service, and recognizes buildings, sites, structures, districts, and objects according to a list of criteria of national significance. [1]