1310 Oaklyn Road
City Directories and History: Oaklyn Plantation, straddling the Old Charleston Road at Black Creek is of historical significance as one of the major plantation establishments of the county and as the seat of the Williamson family for more than 200 years. The district includes 49 contributing resources and 19 non-contributing resources. At the present time, the property contains a nineteenth century plantation house (ca. 1830s) with early twentieth century alterations, an avenue of oaks, and a flower garden; related domestic service buildings, including a brick kitchen, smokehouse, privy, garage, and servant’s’ house; various nineteenth century and early twentieth century agricultural buildings including tobacco curing barns, tobacco packhouses, livestock barns, vehicle and equipment sheds, an engine-powered grist mill, a sawmill, a planer, a nineteenth century cotton gin, and a drive through barn and scales for mixing guano; nineteenth and early twentieth century tenant houses; the remains of a nineteenth century canal, a marl pit (min), charcoal making pits, underground drainage lines, open water wells, and a narrow gauge road (tram road); a nineteenth century pecan grove and grape arbor; and agricultural fields and pastures. Listed in the National Register February 2, 1995.
(Courtesy of South Carolina Department of Archives and History)
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