Medway

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

From the record

“Medway or the Medway Plantation is a plantation in Mount Holly, South Carolina within Berkeley County, South Carolina. Route 52 from the unincorporated community of Mount Holly, which is directly north of Goose Creek, South Carolina.”
Wikipedia article Medway (Mount Holly, South Carolina), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Berkeley County · listed in 1970 · 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. E of Mount Holly off U.S. 52, Mount Holly, 29445
When was it listed? July 1970
Category. building
Census division. Goose Creek-Hanahan
National Register reference number. 70000569 - 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

213 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 213 fires within 5 miles of Medway between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,146 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 39 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	90
Debris and open burning	43
Arson/incendiarism	39
Misuse of fire by a minor	28
Railroad operations and maintenance	8
Other causes	1
Fireworks	1
Natural	1
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
9 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1999	Railroad operations and maintenance	25 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2011	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Berkeley County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Medway: 1 plant, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Contained or Metal, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	C G Rowland Prospect	Iron	Prospect
	Mount Holly Aluminum Plant	Aluminum, Contained or Metal	Plant	1980

Every working recorded in Berkeley 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
Otranto Plantation Indigo Vats	3.9 miles	1989
St. James' Church, Goose Creek	5.2 miles	1970
Taveau Church	5.5 miles	1978
Otranto Plantation	5.9 miles	1978
Cooper River Historic District	6.0 miles	2003
Strawberry Chapel and Childsbury Town Site	6.5 miles	1972

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 70000569 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Berkeley County	All 26 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.