Willtown Bluff, also known as Wilton and New London, is a historic settlement site located on the S. Edisto River near Adams Run, Charleston County, South Carolina. Founded about 1704, it was the second planned town to be established after the relocation of Charleston in 1682. Willtown served as a local governmental center (polling place, court of pleas, magistrate court) and regional commercial center. The property includes three early-19th-century buildings: the Parsonage (c. 1836), the Willtown Plantation House (c. 1820), and the remains of a single column of the Episcopal Church (c. 1836). Unexposed remains are of a colonial village thought to have had 80 houses.[2][3]
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| Location | Southwest of Adams Run at the end of County Road 55 on the banks of the S. Edisto River, near Adams Run, South Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 32°40′54″N 80°24′54″W / 32.68167°N 80.41500°W |
| Area | 127.3 acres (51.5 ha) |
| Built | c. 1704 |
| NRHP reference No. | 74001830[1] |
| Added to NRHP | January 8, 1974 |
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Elias B. Bull and William H. Brabham (July 1973). "Willtown Bluff" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved August 3, 2014.
- ^ "Willtown Bluff, Charleston County (S.C. Sec. Rd. 55, Adams Run vicinity)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved August 1, 2014.
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