Pee Dee River Rice Planters Historic District
The Pee Dee River Rice Planters Historic District consists of various historic rice plantations, including their remaining chimneys, other buildings, or ricefields. The plantations can be separated into 3 different groups.
Pee Dee River Plantations
These 12 former plantations are located along the Pee Dee River:
- Arundel Plantation.
- Belle Rive.
- Birdfield.
- Breakwater.
- Chicora Wood Plantation.
- Dirleton.
- Enfield.
- Exchange.
- Guendalos.
- Hasty Point.
- Rosebank.
- Springfield.
Waccamaw River Plantations
These 5 rice plantations are located along the Waccamaw River:
- Litchfield.
- Oatland.
- Turkey Hill.
- Waverly.
- Willbrook.
Rice Planters Culture
Several plantations were part of the region's rice culture, which peaked from about 1750 to about 1910. All of the plantation houses are frame houses with a central hall plan.
- Four plantation houses, located at Chicora Wood, Dirleton, Exchange and Rosebank.
- Several plantation outbuildings, predominantly at Arundel and Chicora Wood.
- Two rice barns. One at Exchange and another one at Hasty Point.
- a rice mill and chimney at Chicora Wood.
- Historic ricefields, canals, dikes and trunks.
The Pee Dee River Rice Planters Historic District is in the vicinity of Georgetown in South Carolina.
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