Historic South Carolina: A Tour of the State's Top National Landmarks

by Lee Davis Perry

Overview

Historic South Carolina: A Tour of the State's Top National Landmarks is a carefully curated travel guide, written by a local historian, featuring the most intriguing and significant of the state's nationally recognized historic landmarks. This guide provides interesting anecdotes and color photography of famous manors and plantation houses, centuries-old churches and chapels, and beautiful marshlands of the Low Country. Tour the Palmetto State and travel back in time with Historic South Carolina.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781493054749
Publisher:	Globe Pequot Publishing
Publication date:	12/30/2021
Pages:	152
Product dimensions:	12.70(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Lee Davis Perry was raised in Charleston. She is the author of More Than Petticoats: Remarkable South Carolina Women, South Carolina Curiosities, South Carolina off the Beaten Path, and the co-author of Insiders’ Guide to Charleston.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

Chapter 1 Charleston & The Surrounding Area

William Aiken House and Associated Railroad Structures, Charleston 1

William Blacklock House, Charleston 2

Miles Brewton House, Chasrleston 4

Colonel Robert Brewton House, Charleston 6

Charleston Historic District, Charleston 8

College of Charleston, Charleston 10

Drayton Hall, Charleston 12

Exchange and Provost, Charleston 13

Farmers' and Exchange Bank, Charleston 14

Fireproof Building, Chadeston 16

William Gibbes House, Charleston 17

Edwin DuBose Heyward House, Charleston 19

Heyward-Washington House, Charleston 20

Hibernian Hall, Charleston 21

Huguenot Church, Charleston 24

Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim, Charleston 26

Laffey (USS), Mt. Pleasant 28

Joseph Manigault House, Charleston 29

Market Hall and Sheds, Charleston 31

Middleton Place, Charleston 33

Mulberry Plantation, Moncks Corner 34

Old Marine Hospital, Charleston 36

Parish House of the Circular Congregational Church, Charleston 39

Pompion Hill Chapel, Huger 41

Powder Magazine, Charleston 44

Robert Barnwell Rhett House, Charleston 45

Robert William Roper House, Charleston 47

Nathaniel Russell House, Charleston 50

Edward Rutledge House, Charleston 53

John Rutledge House, Charleston 55

St. Michael's Church, Charleston 58

St. Philip's Church, Charleston 60

Simmons-Edwards House, Charleston 63

Snee Farm, Mt. Pleasant 65

Stono River Slave Rebellion Site, Charleston County near Rantowles 67

Colonel John Stuart House, Charleston 69

Unitarian Church, Charleston 71

Yorktown (USS), Mt. Pleasant 73

Chapter 2 The Southern Corner

Beaufort Historic District, Beaufort 76

Charlesfort-Santa Elena Site, Port Royal 78

Fig Island, Edisto 80

Marshlands, Beaufort 81

Penn Center Historic District, St. Helena Island 83

Robert Smalls House, Beaufort 85

Chapter 3 The Grand Strand

Atalaya and Brookgreen Gardens, Murrells Inlet 89

Hampton Plantation, McClellanville 91

Hopsewee, Georgetown 93

Joseph H. Rainey House, Georgetown 95

St. James-Santee Episcopal Church, Santee 97

St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, St. Stephen 99

Snow's Island, Florence County 102

Chapter 4 The Fall Line

Borough House, Stateburg 104

Camden Battlefield, Camden 105

Chapelle Administration Building Columbia 108

Church of the Holy Cross, Stateburg 110

First Baptist Church, Columbia 112

Graniteville Historic District, Graniteville 114

Millford Plantation, Pinewood 115

Robert Mills House, Columbia 119

Mills Building, South Carolina State Hospital, Columbia 120

Mulberry Plantation (James and Mary Boykin Chesnut House), Camden 122

South Carolina State House, Columbia 126

Chapter 5 The Upstate

Burt-Stark Mansion, Abbeville 129

Fort Hill (John C. Calhoun House), Clemson 131

Ninety-Six and Scar Fort, Ninety-Six 132

Thematic Index 135