This is a List of National Historic Landmarks in South Carolina, United States. The United States' National Historic Landmark (NHL) program is operated under the auspices of the National Park Service, and recognizes buildings, sites, structures, districts, and objects according to a list of criteria of national significance.[1] There are 76 NHLs in South Carolina and 3 additional National Park Service-administered areas of primarily historic importance.[2]
Architects whose work is recognized by two or more separate NHLs in the state are:
These tallies do not include any buildings that are contributing properties within historic districts unless they are also individually designated as NHLs.
There are five places listed for their association with artists and writers.[7]
There are four World War II-era museum ships; all are located at Patriot's Point in Charleston Harbor.
Current NHLs in South Carolina
The 76 NHLs in South Carolina are distributed across 16 of the 46 counties in the state; 42 of the 76 are located in Charleston County.
Historic areas of the National Park System in South Carolina
National Historic Sites, National Historic Parks, National Memorials, and certain other areas listed in the National Park system are historic landmarks of national importance that are highly protected already, often before the inauguration of the NHL program in 1960, and are then often not also named NHLs per se. There are five of these in South Carolina. The National Park Service lists these five together with the NHLs in the state,[11] The Charles Pinckney National Historic Site (also known as Snee Farm) and Ninety Six National Historic Siteare also NHLs and are listed above. The remaining three are:
Former NHLs in South Carolina
The nuclear-powered commercial vessel NS Savannah was moved to Virginia. Piedmont Number One, a historic textile mill, burned in 1983.
See also
References
- ^ National Park Service. "National Historic Landmarks Program: Questions and Answers". Retrieved September 21, 2007.
- ^ National Park Service (June 2011). "National Historic Landmarks Survey: List of National Historic Landmarks by State" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on November 5, 2011. Retrieved July 4, 2011.
- ^ Robert Mills' eight NHLs in SC are: Bethesda Presbyterian Church, Fireproof Building, Lancaster County Courthouse, Lancaster County Jail, Robert Mills House, Mills Building, South Carolina State Hospital, Old Marine Hospital (Charleston), and Parish House of the Circular Congregational Church.
- ^ Edward Brickell White's five NHLs in SC are: College of Charleston, Huguenot Church, Market Hall and Sheds, Saint Philip's Episcopal Church.
- ^ Architect Gabriel Manigault designed Joseph Manigault House, and possibly both Presqui'ile and William Blacklock House.
- ^ Medical doctor William Wallace Anderson designed Borough House and Church of the Holy Cross.
- ^ Places associated with an artist or writer are: Atalaya and Brookgreen Gardens/Anna Huntington; Dubose Heyward House/Dubose Heyward; Clark Mills Studio/Clark Mills; Mulberry Plantation (James and Mary Boykin Chesnut House)/Mary Boykin Chesnut; Woodlands/William Gilmore Simms
- ^ Numbers represent an alphabetical ordering by significant words. Various colorings, defined here, differentiate National Historic Landmarks and historic districts from other NRHP buildings, structures, sites or objects.
- ^ The eight-digit number below each date is the number assigned to each location in the National Register Information System database, which can be viewed by clicking the number.
- ^ "Snow's Island". South Carolina History Trail. Retrieved November 5, 2015.
- ^ These are listed on p.114 of "National Historic Landmarks Survey: List of National Historic Landmarks by State"
- ^ Date of listing as National Monument or similar designation, from various sources in articles indexed.
- ^ "N.S. SAVANNAH (Nuclear Merchant Ship)". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Archived from the original on April 14, 2009. Retrieved March 27, 2008.
- ^ Withdrawal of National Historic Landmark designation
External links
- "National Historic Landmarks Survey: List of National Historic Landmarks by State—South Carolina (77)" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved November 5, 2007..
- National Historic Landmarks program, at National Park Service
- South Carolina Department of Archives and History: The National Register of Historic Places - Search Records by County
- National Register Information System"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010., National Park Service.
