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Chicora Wood Plantation

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Chicora Wood Plantation, originally known as Matanzas, is a former rice plantation in Georgetown County, South Carolina, established between 1732 and 1736, with its 1819 plantation house still standing today. Robert Francis Withers Allston took over its management in 1827, building it into the base for a network of rice plantations that produced 1.5 million pounds of rice by 1860 using 630 enslaved laborers. His daughter, Elizabeth Allston Pringle, later managed the property from 1896 until her death there in 1921, writing about plantation life in her books A Woman Rice Planter and Chronicles of Chicora Wood. The house, built in the Greek Revival style on a raised basement typical of the region, survives with a number of outbuildings including its rice mill complex, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 11, 1973, as part of the Pee Dee River Rice Planters Historic District. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Building Type
Plantation 1
LocationSourced to the subject's own account
South Carolina, United States 2
Completed Year
1819 1
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)
Plantation 1
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1. Chicora Wood Plantation (Wikipedia)
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicora_Wood_Plantation, lead definition
    The Chicora Wood Plantation (originally known as Matanzas) is a former rice plantation in Georgetown County, South Carolina.
  • Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
    Chicora Wood Plantation, originally known as Matanzas, is a former rice plantation in Georgetown County, South Carolina, established between 1732 and 1736, with its 1819 plantation house still standing today. Robert Francis Withers Allston took over its management in 1827, building it into the base for a network of rice plantations that produced 1.5 million pounds of rice by 1860 using 630 enslaved laborers. His daughter, Elizabeth Allston Pringle, later managed the property from 1896 until her death there in 1921, writing about plantation life in her books A Woman Rice Planter and Chronicles of Chicora Wood. The house, built in the Greek Revival style on a raised basement typical of the region, survives with a number of outbuildings including its rice mill complex, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 11, 1973, as part of the Pee Dee River Rice Planters Historic District.
  • Wikipedia infobox completion_date/completed/built field (1819)
    completion_date/completed = 1819
  • Wikipedia infobox building_type field (Plantation)
    The Chicora Wood Plantation (originally known as Matanzas) is a former rice plantation in Georgetown County, South Carolina. The plantation itself was established sometime between 1732 and 1736 and the 1819 plantation house still exists today. In 1827, Robert Francis Withers Allston (1801-1864) resigned as surveyor-general of South Carolina to take over full-time management of Chicora Wood, which
  • In Style: Greek Revival Architecture, Infobox, architecture
    architecture: Greek Revival
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2. Chicora Wood Plantation (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: South Carolina, United States
Quote, Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: South Carolina, United States
Wikidata item Q5096493, property P131/P17 (location): South Carolina, United States
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