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Redcliffe Plantation Library

The Lace House is a 9,606 sq ft antebellum home built in 1854. The Lace House was the home of Thomas and Mary Caldwell Robertson, the youngest daughter of John Caldwell. Caldwell was president of the South Carolina Railroad. It is located next to the SC Governor’s Mansion in Columbia, SC. It was purchased by the state in 1968 and used as a guest house. You can now rent it out for your wedding

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DuPre Motor Company

Cassique of the Kiawah, chief of the Kiawah Indians. Responsible for guiding colonists to what became the first Charleston settlement at Charlestown Landing

The E. A. Beall Wholesale Groceries building was built ca. 1900

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Brookland Fire Station

The Faires-Coltharp Cabin was originally built by Jesse Faires in about 1814. Jesse’s parents, Alexander and Jennet Faires, traveled here on horseback on the Great Philadelphia Wagon Road or Nation Ford Road from Pennsylvania in 1776.⁠ Photo by: @photographybycarena

The South Carolina Railroad Depot was built in 1850. The building partially burned in 1865 and was reconstructed

The old St. David’s Episcopal Church formed in 1768. This church was constructed in 1770 and it was the last Anglican church in South Carolina built under the rule of King George III. The church was used as a hospital in both the Revolutionary and the Civil War⁠

The porch at the Redcliffe Plantation. Redcliffe Plantation has been named as one of the “Top Ten Sites to Visit in South Carolina” by the SC African American Heritage Commission during Black History Month