Seashore Farmers' Lodge No. 767

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“The Seashore Farmers' Lodge No. 767 is an historic building in coastal South Carolina that was erected to house a fraternal lodge for African Americans. The Lodge was built about 1915 by local black farmers.”
Wikipedia article Seashore Farmers' Lodge No. 767, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 227 National Register listings published here for Charleston County · listed in 2007 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. NE corner Jct. of Sol Legare & Old Sol Legare Rds., James Island, 29412
When was it listed? October 2007
Category. building
Census division. James Island
National Register reference number. 07001043 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

28 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Seashore Farmers' Lodge No. 767 between 1992 and 2019, burning about 222 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 6 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Arson/incendiarism	6
Natural	2
Recreation and ceremony	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
26 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 1999	Natural	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 July 2000	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 July 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 July 2015	Natural	75 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 June 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
13 June 2002	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 May 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Charleston County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Seashore Farmers' Lodge No. 767: 2 unknowns, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Iron, Zirconium, Thorium, Titanium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Edmondson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay	Producer
Folly Beach	Iron, Zirconium, Thorium, Titanium	Unknown	Placer , Modern , Beach
Edmondson Hauling Pit 1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Edmondson Hauling Pit 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Charleston County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Pine Tree Hotel	1.1 miles	2019
W. Gresham Meggett High and Elementary School	1.8 miles	2018
Battery No. 5	2.0 miles	1982
Secessionville Historic District	2.1 miles	1979
Battery No. 1	2.4 miles	1982
Battery LeRoy	2.4 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07001043 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Charleston County	All 227 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.