Fairfield Rice Mill Chimney

	Fairfield Rice Mill Chimney
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Off U.S. Route 17, near Georgetown, South Carolina
Coordinates	33°23′33″N 79°13′11″W / 33.39250°N 79.21972°W
Area	less than one acre
MPS	Georgetown County Rice Culture MPS
NRHP reference No.	88000527
Added to NRHP	October 3, 1988

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.

Overview

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.^[2]^[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ J. Tracy Power and Sherry Piland (September 1987). "Fairfield Rice Mill Chimney" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved 7 July 2012.
^ "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. Retrieved 7 July 2012.

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[nrhpinv-2] J. Tracy Power and Sherry Piland (September 1987). "Fairfield Rice Mill Chimney" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved 7 July 2012.

[scdah-3] "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. Retrieved 7 July 2012.

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