This is a List of National Historic Landmarks in South Carolina, United States. The United States' National Historic Landmark (NHL) program is operated under the auspices of the National Park Service, and recognizes buildings, sites, structures, districts, and objects according to a list of criteria of national significance.[1] There are 76 NHLs in South Carolina and 3 additional National Park Service-administered areas of primarily historic importance.[2]
Architects whose work is recognized by two or more separate NHLs in the state are:
These tallies do not include any buildings that are contributing properties within historic districts unless they are also individually designated as NHLs.
There are five places listed for their association with artists and writers.[7]
There are four World War II-era museum ships; all are located at Patriot's Point in Charleston Harbor.
The 76 NHLs in South Carolina are distributed across 16 of the 46 counties in the state; 42 of the 76 are located in Charleston County.
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National Historic Sites, National Historic Parks, National Memorials, and certain other areas listed in the National Park system are historic landmarks of national importance that are highly protected already, often before the inauguration of the NHL program in 1960, and are then often not also named NHLs per se. There are five of these in South Carolina. The National Park Service lists these five together with the NHLs in the state,[8] The Charles Pinckney National Historic Site (also known as Snee Farm) and Ninety Six National Historic Siteare also NHLs and are listed above. The remaining three are:
| Landmark name | Image | Date established[9] | Location | County | Description | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cowpens National Battlefield | Gaffney | Cherokee | Site of Battle of Cowpens in 1781 | ||||
| Fort Sumter National Monument | Charleston | Charleston | First shots of the American Civil War were fired on January 9, 1861, and the Battle of Fort Sumter raged from April 12 to April 13. | ||||
| Kings Mountain National Military Park | Blacksburg | Cherokee | Site of Battle of Kings Mountain on 7 October 1780 |
The nuclear-powered commercial vessel NS Savannah was moved to Virginia. Piedmont Number One, a historic textile mill, burned in 1983.
| Landmark name | Image | Date designated | Date moved or withdrawn | Locality | County | Description | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NS Savannah | [10] | 1994 | Patriot's Point, Charleston | Charleston | Nuclear-powered merchant cargo and passenger vessel. It was at Patriot's Point from 1982 until 1994, when it was removed to Baltimore, Maryland. It has since been moved to Virginia. | |||
| Piedmont Number One | Piedmont | Greenville | A historic Southern textile mill that burned in 1983. Its National Historic Landmark designation was removed on March 5, 1986.[11] |