Hopsewee Plantation

Hopsewee, a National Historic Landmark, has been owned by only five families, although it was built almost 40 years before the Revolutionary War. A visit to Hopsewee on the North Santee River is a step into history.

The house, still a private residence, is a typical low country rice plantation dwelling of the early eighteenth century with four rooms opening into a wide center hall on each floor, a full brick cellar and attic rooms. Constructed on a brick foundation which is covered by scored tabby, the house is built of black cypress, which probably accounts for the fact that it is basically the same house the Lynches built over 260 years ago. It is furnished in eighteenth and nineteenth century furniture.

The plantation is open Tuesday through Friday from 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. and on Saturday by appointment. Admission is charged.

The home is Located on Highway 17, 12 miles south of Georgetown on the North Santee River.

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