Cooper River Historic District Explained

Cooper River Historic District
Nrhp Type:hd
Nocat:yes
Location:Along the East and West Branches of the Cooper River, near Moncks Corner, South Carolina
Coordinates:33.2311°N -80.0344°W
Architecture:Colonial, Early Republic
Added:February 5, 2003
Mpsub:Cooper River MPS
Refnum:02000571

Cooper River Historic District is a national historic district located along the East and West Branches of the Cooper River near Moncks Corner, Berkeley County, South Carolina. It encompasses 32 contributing buildings, 77 contributing sites, 8 contributing structures, and 4 contributing objects and is a remarkably intact historic and cultural landscape. The district includes many historic buildings, structures, and objects from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries and archaeological remains of settlements, machines, barns, and other structures that supported agricultural activity. In addition, there are landscape features dating to the 18th and 19th centuries such as rice fields, banks, canals, dams, reservoirs or reserves, causeways, roads, avenues, upland fields, fence lines, and cemeteries.[1] [2]

It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Cooper River Historic District, Berkeley County (along the East and West branches of the Cooper River, Moncks Corner vicinity). National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. 25 February 2014. and Accompanying map
  2. Web site: Andrew W. Chandler. December 2002. Cooper River Historic District . National Register of Historic Places nomination. NRHP. 25 February 2014. etal.