Belle Isle Rice Mill Chimney Explained

Belle Isle Rice Mill Chimney
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Location:Cat Island, near Georgetown, South Carolina
Coordinates:33.2006°N -79.2583°W
Added:October 3, 1988
Refnum:88000525

Belle Isle Rice Mill Chimney is a historic rice mill chimney and national historic district located near Georgetown, Georgetown County, South Carolina. The district encompasses one contributing site and four contributing structures. This rice mill chimney is one of seven known extant rice mill chimneys in Georgetown County and is associated with what once was one of several productive rice plantations on Cat Island. It is one of two extant rice mill chimneys in Georgetown County and measures 33 feet, 9 inches, high.[1] [2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: J. Tracy Power and Sherry Piland. Belle Isle Rice Mill Chimney . National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . September 1987 . 7 July 2012.
  2. Web site: Belle Isle Rice Mill Chimney, Georgetown County (Cat Island, Georgetown vicinity). National Register Properties in South Carolina . South Carolina Department of Archives and History . 7 July 2012.