Keithfield Plantation

Keithfield Plantation
Location Off County Road 52, near Georgetown, South Carolina
Coordinates 33°26′21″N 79°14′39″W / 33.43917°N 79.24417°W / 33.43917; -79.24417Coordinates: 33°26′21″N 79°14′39″W / 33.43917°N 79.24417°W / 33.43917; -79.24417
Area 264.8 acres (107.2 ha)
Built 1866 (1866)
Architectural style Single pen slave cabin
MPS Georgetown County Rice Culture MPS
NRHP Reference # 88000529[1]
Added to NRHP October 3, 1988

Keithfield Plantation is a historic rice plantation property and national historic district located near Georgetown, Georgetown County, South Carolina. The district encompasses 1 contributing building, 1 contributing site, and 3 contributing structures. They include a slave cabin, built about 1830, and agricultural features including examples of historic ricefields, canals, dikes, and trunks. The original main house burned in the mid-20th century. Keithfield was one of several productive rice plantations on the Black River.[2][3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. J. Tracy Power and Sherry Piland (September 1987). "Keithfield Plantation" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved 7 July 2012.
  3. "Keithfield Plantation, Georgetown County (off S.C. Sec. Rd. 52, Georgetown vicinity)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 7 July 2012.


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