Cooper River National Historic District

Archive

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Historic Charleston Foundation

Map, Cooper River Hist. Dist.

Map, Cooper River Hist. Dist.

Name/Title

Cooper River National Historic District

Entry/Object ID

PLANTATIONS.002

Scope and Content

The Cooper River Historic District is an intact historic rural area of some 33,000 acres in Berkeley County located principally along the East Branch of the Cooper River. Within its boundaries are the oldest rural dwellings in the state, colonial parish churches and chapels of ease; other architectural resources and their intact surrounding rural landscapes including several colonial and antebellum plantations; and archaeological sites which contribute to an overall understanding of the region’s significance in state and national history. This historic district’s significance lies not only in its historic architecture and the remarkable concentrations of rural landscapes within its bounds, but most importantly in the role that the river, its plantations, and their people have played in the life of South Carolina through three centuries of her history. In the nomination to the National Register, the themes, trends, and patterns of history shared by several properties are organized into a historic context statement with definitions of the property types found that relate to the context. The District was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003, thanks in large part to the efforts of Historic Charleston Foundation working in conjunction with other public and private entities, including the Berkeley County Soil and Water Conservation District and the State Historic Preservation Office of the SC Department of Archives and History. Fine examples of architecture found in the district from the Colonial period through the modern era include Middleburg Plantation (1697), the oldest surviving plantation house in South Carolina; the Georgian style Pompion Hill Chapel (1763); the Federal style Quinby Plantation House (c.1792), the Tudor Revival style complex at Richmond Plantation (ca. 1927); and the International style buildings at Mepkin Plantation (ca. 1938). The district's rice fields, canals, dams, reservoirs, causeways, roads and cemeteries are tangible evidence of the rice plantation economy and the work of thousands of slaves who provided labor for the plantations. The area also contains several significant archaeological sites; digs here have given scholars new insights into the Colonial, antebellum and post-Civil War history of white and black inhabitants of the region. Files contain information on plantations, churches, cemeteries, etc., within the Cooper River National Historic District, and may include any or all of the following documents: SC Survey Site Form(s); National Register of Historic Inventory Form(s); research notes; photos; plats and maps; newspaper articles; reports; and narrative descriptions from a variety of books and other sources. Miscellaneous files include records for non-contributing sites, contributing sites that are gone, documentation of some mile-markers, photographs of rice fields, resource bibliography, etc. Files include: Biggin Church and Cemetery Blessing Bossis Bluff Bonneau Ferry Buck Hall Calais Milestones Cherry Hill Comingtee Cordesville UMC Church Dean Hall Emanuel A.M.E. Church Henry S. Evans House Exeter Flagg and Grove Plantations (Amoco property) Fort Fairlawn French Quarter Creek Gippy James Gourdine House Halidon Hill/Quinby House Harry Hill Jacob Martin Howard House Huguenot Church Marker (St. Denis Church) Hyde Park Irvin Chapel Cemetery Kensington Julius Ladson House Lewisfield (Simons Family Cemetery) Limerick (see also, archaeological report, 2009.002.089) Longwood Medway Mepkin Middleburg Naval Weapons Station/Red Bank Road Cottage Plantation North Chachan Old Santee Otranto Pawley's Pimlico Pinopolis Dam/Jeffries Plant Pompion Hill Chapel (see Media link) Quinby Rice Hope (Loutrel Briggs garden) Richmond St. Thomas and St. Denis Church (see Media link) Santee Canal Silk Hope Stony Landing Spring Grove South Mulberry Strawberry Chapel/Childsbury Towne Strawberry Plantation Taveau Church Washington Wappoolah Yeaman's Hall/Yeaman's Hall Graveyard

Collection

Cooper River Historic District

Acquisition

Accession

PLANTATIONS.

Source or Donor

Miscellaneous Plantation Files

Acquisition Method

Collected by Staff

Lexicon

Search Terms

Cooper River Historic District, Plantations--Berkeley County, Chapels--Berkeley County, Church buildings--Berkeley County, Cooper River Region (S.C.)

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Collection

Archive Details

Archive Size/Extent

4 boxes (~1.5 lin. ft.)

Archive Items Details

Title

B-L: Biggin Church & Cemetery through Longwood

Description

Survey sheets and photographs for: Biggin Church and Cemetery Blessing Bossis Bluff Bonneau Ferry Buck Hall Calais Milestones Cherry Hill Comingtee Cordesville UMC Church Dean Hall Emanuel A.M.E. Church Henry S. Evans House Exeter Flagg and Grove Plantations (Amoco property) Fort Fairlawn French Quarter Creek Gippy James Gourdine House Halidon Hill/Quinby House Harry Hill Jacob Martin Howard House Huguenot Church Marker (St. Denis Church) Hyde Park Irvin Chapel Cemetery Kensington Julius Ladson House Lewisfield (Simons Family Cemetery) Limerick Longwood

Notes

Location: Plantation Shelves - CRHD Container: Box 1

Title

M-W: Medway through Wappaoolah

Description

Survey sheets and photographs for: Medway Mepkin Middleburg Naval Weapons Station/Red Bank Road Cottage Plantation North Chachan Old Santee Otranto Pawley's (plat on Media tab) Pimlico Pinopolis Dam/Jeffries Plant Pompion Hill Chapel (see Media link) Quinby Rice Hope (Loutrel Briggs garden) Richmond St. Thomas and St. Denis Church (see Media link) Santee Canal Silk Hope Stony Landing Spring Grove South Mulberry Strawberry Chapel/Childsbury Towne Strawberry Plantation Taveau Church Washington Wappoolah

Notes

Location: Plantation Shelves - CRHD Container: Box 2

Title

Yeaman's Hall

Description

Survey sheets and photographs for Yeaman's Hall Plantation and Yeaman's Hall Graveyard.

Container

1-2

Notes

Location: Plantation Shelves - CRHD Container: Box 3

Title

CRHD Survey Background

Description

Overview of the survey; bibliographical references; timeline; correspondence.

Container

3

Notes

Location: Plantation Shelves - CRHD Container: Box 3

Title

CRHD Survey - Contributing Sites

Description

Survey forms for Promised Land M.E. Church; Hagan Plantation; Pimlico; 758 Moultrie Road; Williams House; 1448 Dr. Evans Road; Holy Comforter R.E. Church Cemetery.

Container

4

Notes

Location: Plantation Shelves - CRHD Container: Box 3

Title

CRHD Survey - "Gone" or Non-Contributing Sites

Description

Survey forms for Moses Chisolm Store; Pimlico Plantation House; Jeremiah Profit House; Julius Cox House; Ropers-McMullen House; St. James Reformed Episcopal Church Cemetery; St. James Reformed Episcopal Church; W.H. Dennis House; and several sites south of SC 41.

Container

5

Notes

Location: Plantation Shelves - CRHD Container: Box 3

Title

News Articles

Container

6

Notes

Location: Plantation Shelves - CRHD Container: Box 3

Title

Map with Plantation Locations

Container

7

Notes

Location: Plantation Shelves - CRHD Container: Box 3

Title

Draft - National Register of Historic Places Registration Form

Container

8

Notes

Location: Plantation Shelves - CRHD Container: Box 3

Title

National Register of Historic Places Registration Form

Container

9

Notes

Location: Plantation Shelves - CRHD Container: Box 3

Title

Photocopies of Photos of the Area

Container

11

Notes

Location: Plantation Shelves - CRHD Container: Box 3

Title

Archaeological Resources of the Proposed Cooper River National Register District

Description

Report by Carl Steen and Ellen Shlasko (Diacrhonic Research Foundation, ca. 1999) for Historic Charleston Foundation. See 2015.002.105.

Container

12

Notes

Location: Plantation Shelves - CRHD Container: Box 3

Title

SCDAH/SHPO Grant Application

Description

Grant application for the Cooper River Corridor National Register Nomination Survey submitted by Historic Charleston Foundation Jan. 15, 1997

Container

10

Notes

Location: Plantation Shelves - CRHD Container: Box 3

Title

Photographs

Description

Photographs and contact sheets (some with corresponding negatives). Some locations identified, some unidentified. Also includes photographs of rice fields (east and west branch) and mile markers. May be duplicates of photos in individual property files. Locations include: Cypress Gardens, Medway, Middleburg, Mulberry, The Bluff, Taveau Church, Pimlico (typical architecture), Strawberry Chapel, Mepkin Abbey, Pompion Hill, Biggin Church, Cordesville, Rice Hope Plantation, Hyde Park, St. Thomas, Blessing, Yeaman's Hall, Limerick Plantation, Pawley's Plantation, Dean Hall, Longwood, Westvaco, Amoco Mile Marker, Comingtee house and rice mill, Bossis.

Notes

Location: Plantation Shelves - CRHD Container: Box 4

Location

Location

Shelf

Plantations Shelves

Room

Margaretta P. Childs Archives

Building

Missroon House

Category

Permanent

Date

February 7, 2023

Location

Building

Missroon Archives/Plantations Shelves

Category

Permanent

Relationships

Related Entries

Notes

2005.003.0175, 2005.003.0189, 2005.003.0245, 2006.002.0005, 2006.002.0225, 2007.001.06, 2007.001.07, 2007.002.0056, 2008.001.59, 2009.002.012, 2009.004.002, 2013.001.03, PLANTATIONS.003 Related Units of Description: Cooper River Corridor file in Preservation Issues/Topics. Cainhoy files in Misc. Neighborhoods/Areas, 2006.001.005 Comingtee Plantation, Master's Thesis by Kimberly Christine Norton, "The Interpretation of Comingtee Plantation," and "Historic Structures Report" (Pamphlets 298 & 299)

Related Publications

Notes

SC Dept. of Archives & History, "Cooper River Historic District Listed in the National Register," www.state.sc.us/scdah/hpcooperriver.htm HCF website, "Cooper River Historic District Named to National Register," www.historiccharleston.org/preservation/stories_cooper_river_dist.html National Register "Multiple Property Documentation Form," http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/MPS/MPS046.pdf See Bibliography file.

General Notes

Note

Notes: "Annals and Parish Register of St. Thomas and St. Denis Parish" (see Media tab) has some information on the building early church; page 15 lays out some building specs for Pompion Hill.

Created By

admin@catalogit.app

Create Date

August 29, 2006

Updated By

admin@catalogit.app

Update Date

February 17, 2023