Halidon Plantation Inland Rice Fields and Reserves	Halidon Plantation Inland Rice Fields and Reserves	Middleburg Plantation	Middleburg Plantation Oak Avenue	Middleburg Plantation Oak Avenue
Middleburg Plantation Rice Fields	Middleburg Plantation Steam Engine	Middleburg Plantation Rice Mill Ruins and Chimney	Middleburg Plantation Commissary	Middleburg Plantation Kitchen
Middleburg Plantation Archaeological Site	Pompion Hill Chapel	Longwood Plantation Rice Fields	Quinby Plantation Oak Avenue	Silk Hope Plantation Grave of Governor Nathaniel Johnson
Silk Hope Plantation Brick Barn Ruin	Limerick Plantation Boat Landing Archaeological Site	Limerick Plantation Archaeological Site	Limerick Plantation Oak Avenue	Limerick Plantation Rice Fields

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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.

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