Hephzibah Jenkins Townsend's Tabby Oven Ruins

Hephzibah Jenkins Townsend's Tabby Oven Ruins
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Address Restricted, Edisto Island, South Carolina
Area	0.4 acres (0.16 ha)
Built	c. 1815 (1815)
MPS	Edisto Island MRA
NRHP Reference #	86003200^[1]
Added to NRHP	May 5, 1987

Hephzibah Jenkins Townsend's Tabby Oven Ruins is a historic archaeological site located at Edisto Island, Charleston County, South Carolina. The remains represent what was essentially a commercial bakery. The tabby ovens were built about 1815. The site consists of in situ tabby walls and foundations, as well as portions of fallen walls and tabby rubble. The oven's products were sold at Charleston by Hephzibah Jenkins Townsend of Bleak Hall Plantation to support the mission work of Edisto Island Baptist Church.^[2]^[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.^[1]

References

1 2 Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ unknown (n.d.). "Hephzibah Jenkins Townsend's Tabby Oven Ruins" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved June 2014.
↑ "Hephzibah Jenkins Townsend Tabby Oven Ruins, Charleston County (Address Restricted)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 2014-08-01.

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