Fairfield Rice Mill Chimney Explained

Fairfield Rice Mill Chimney
Location:	Off U.S. Route 17, near Georgetown, South Carolina
Coordinates:	33.3925°N -79.2197°W
Added:	October 3, 1988
Area:	less than one acre
Refnum:	88000527

Fairfield Rice Mill Chimney is a historic rice mill chimney located near Georgetown, Georgetown County, South Carolina. It is one of seven known extant rice mill chimneys in Georgetown County. It was associated with Fairfield, one of several productive plantations on the Waccamaw River.

The chimney is octagonal shaped and approximately 35 feet high. In the 1930s the Fairfield rice mill, with its steam engine, boiler, and other machinery, was taken to Dearborn, Michigan, reassembled, refurbished, and put back into operation as a museum exhibit in Henry Ford’s Greenfield Village.^{[1] [2]}

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

External links

• Chimney Pressure Testing
• Chimney Cleaning Service

Notes and References

1. Web site: J. Tracy Power and Sherry Piland . Fairfield Rice Mill Chimney . National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . September 1987 . 7 July 2012.
2. Web site: Fairfield Rice Mill Chimney, Georgetown County (off U.S. Hwy. 17, Waccamaw Neck) . National Register Properties in South Carolina . South Carolina Department of Archives and History . 7 July 2012.