Sunnyside (Edisto Island, South Carolina) Explained

Sunnyside
Location:Off the northern side of Peter's Point Rd.; also north of the junction of Peters Point and Creekwood Rd., Edisto Island, South Carolina
Coordinates:32.5658°N -80.2972°W
Built:, c. 1875
Added:November 28, 1986, February 4, 1994 (Boundary Increase)
Refnum:86003216, 94000024 (Boundary Increase)

Sunnyside, also known as the Townsend Mikell House, is a historic plantation house located at Edisto Island, Charleston County, South Carolina. The main house was built about 1875, and is a -story, rectangular, frame, weatherboard-clad residence. It features a mansard roof topped by a cupola and one-story, hipped roof wraparound porch. Also on the property are the tabby foundation of a cotton gin; two small, rectangular, one-story, gable roof, weatherboard-clad outbuildings; a -story barn; and the Sunnyside Plantation Foreman's House. The Foreman's House is a two-story, weatherboard-clad, frame residence built about 1867.[1] [2] [3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, with a boundary increase in 1994.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: unknown . Sunnyside . National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . n.d. . December 8, 2019.
  2. Web site: Sarah Fick . Sunnyside . National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . June 1993 . December 8, 2019.
  3. Web site: Sunnyside, Charleston County (off Peter's Point Rd., Edisto Island) . National Register Properties in South Carolina . South Carolina Department of Archives and History . 2014-08-01.