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Photograph of Redcliffe Plantation State Historic Site
Photograph by Bill Fitzpatrick, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Redcliffe

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“Redcliffe Plantation State Historic Site is a state park in Aiken County, South Carolina, United States. The state park includes:369 acres of land Redcliffe Plantation, which is a historic house museum with artifacts from four generations of the Hammond family from 1859-1975 Two historic circa 1857 slave cabins that interpret the lives of the approximately 300 people Hammond enslaved across his plantations”

Wikipedia article Redcliffe Plantation State Historic Site, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Aiken County · listed in 1973 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • Address. 1.5 mi. NE of Beech Island on SC 125, Beech Island, 29842
  • When was it listed? May 1973
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Beech Island
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 73001671 - 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

167 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 167 fires within 5 miles of Redcliffe between 1992 and 2020, burning about 870 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 17 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 burning70
Missing data/not specified/undetermined43
Arson/incendiarism17
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural6
Other causes4
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1997Debris and open burning5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2015Debris and open burning2.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Aiken County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Redcliffe: 7 unknowns, 5 producers, 2 occurrences, 2 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, REE, Thorium, Titanium, Zirconium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Aiken County DepositREE, Zirconium, TitaniumPast Producer1879, 1955
Hollow CreekThorium, Titanium, ZirconiumUnknownPlacer-Modern-Fluvial
Town CreekThorium, Titanium, ZirconiumUnknownPlacer-Modern-Fluvial
Horse CreekREEPast Producer
Town CreekREEOccurrence
Augusta Sand and Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownUnconsolidated Sediments
Clearwater MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary
Clearwater PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kellos PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Dixie Clay MineClayUnknownSedimentary

Every working recorded in Aiken County

Storms near this property

3 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beech Island, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1995 and 1996: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1995Thunderstorm WindBeech Island$1,000Trees blown down from wind on Silver Bluff Road near Beech Island.
June 1996Thunderstorm WindBeech Island-no account filed
March 1996HailBeech Island-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Aiken 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Cedars, The0.8 miles1993
Zubly Cemetery1.3 miles2002
Oakland Plantation3.4 miles2011
Rosemary Hall7.5 miles1975
Lookaway Hall7.6 miles1992
Georgia Avenue-Butler Avenue Historic District7.7 miles1984

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 73001671 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Aiken CountyAll 43 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.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.