Cooper River	Cooper River	Cooper River	Calais Milestone #20	Calais Milestone #19
Calais Milestone #18	French Quarter Creek Canal	Huguenot Society of South Carolina Marker	Blessing Plantation House	Blessing Plantation Rice Fields
Blessing Plantation African-American Cemetery	Blessing Plantation Steam Engine	Cherry Hill Plantation Rice Fields	Cherry Hill Plantation Rice Mill Chimney	Cherry Hill Plantation Steam Engine
Campvere Plantation Oak Avenue	Halidon Plantation Quinby House	Halidon Plantation Tidal Rice Fields	Halidon Plantation Tidal Rice Fields	Halidon Plantation Inland Rice Field and Reserves

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The Cooper River Historic District, which is a 30,020-acre section of the region centered along both branches of the Cooper River, is a remarkably intact historic and cultural landscape. In the mid-eighteenth century, the Cooper River served not only as a principal transportation route for plantation goods, services and people, but also played a vital role in the successful production of rice. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries most of the plantations in the district were acquired by wealthy Northerners looking for a warmer climate in which they could create hunting preserves for their own pleasure and leisure-time activities. These new owners left their mark on the landscape by building stately new residences but they also played an important role in preserving the earlier landscape. Many historic buildings, structures, and objects from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries are still standing, and archaeological remains of settlements, machines, barns, and other structures that supported agricultural activity are generally intact. In addition, landscape features such as rice fields, banks, canals, dams, reservoirs or reserves, causeways, roads, avenues, upland fields, fence lines, and cemeteries – many of them present on eighteenth and early nineteenth century plats and maps – can be seen on the ground today. Numerous outbuildings are also included with several of the properties. Listed in the National Register February 5, 2003.

View a map showing the boundaries of the Cooper River Historic District.