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South Carolina National Historic Landmarks

Atalaya and Brookgreen Gardens (Murrells Inlet) - 10/26/1994
Encompasses two formerly-united properties associated with sculptor Anna Hyatt Huntington - Atalaya Castle and the sculpture garden of Brookgreen Gardens

Charleston Historic District (Charleston) - 10/27/1994
The historic district contains primarily residential buildings in addition to commercial, ecclesiastical, and government-related buildings

Clark Mills Studio (Charleston) - 10/27/2018
The residence and studio between 1837 and 1848 of the sculptor credited with creating the first cast equestrian bronze statue, the 1852 statue of Andrew Jackson in Washington, D.C

Drayton Hall - 10/27/2018
An 18th-century plantation and the only plantation house, of Palladian architecture, on the Ashley River to survive intact both the Revolutionary and Civil wars

Dubose Heyward House (Charleston) - 10/27/2018
The home from 1919 to 1924 of the author of Porgy, one of the first works to portray Southern African-Americans in a positive light

Edward Rutledge House (Charleston) - 10/27/2018
The 18th-century house was the home of the signer of the Declaration of Independence and later Governor of South Carolina

Farmers' and Exchange Bank (Charleston) - 10/27/2018
An 1853 Moorish Revival commercial building, it is an architecturally distinctive building, with features rarely seen in the U.S.

Fireproof Building (Charleston) - 10/27/2018
Built in 1827, it was the most fire-resistant building in the U.S. at the time, and is believed to be the oldest fire-resistant building in America today

French Huguenot Church (Charleston) - 10/27/2018
A Gothic Revival church, built in 1844 and designed by architect Edward Brickell White, it is the oldest Gothic Revival church in the state

Hampton Plantation - 10/26/2018
Established in 1735, its main house is one of the state's finest examples of a wood frame Georgian plantation house

Heyward-Washington House (Charleston) - 10/27/2018
Home to Signer of the Declaration of Independence Thomas Heyward, Jr., and where George Washington stayed during his 1791 visit to Charleston

Hibernian Hall (Charleston) - 10/27/2018
A historic Greek Revival meeting hall and social venue ; built in 1840, it is Charleston's only architectural work by Thomas Ustick Walter

Hopsewee Plantation - 10/26/2018
The birthplace of Thomas Lynch, Jr., a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and served as a Lowcountry rice plantation

John Rutledge House (Charleston) - 10/27/2018
Completed in 1763, it was the home of the Governor of South Carolina and signer of the Constitution

Joseph H. Rainey House - 10/26/2018
This was the home of the first black US Congressman, a former slave

Middleton Place - 10/27/2018
Built in the18th and 19th centuries, the plantation was the primary residence of several generations of the prominent Middleton family

Nathaniel Russell House (Charleston) - 10/27/1994
The Rhode Island merchant spent $80,000 on this 1809 Adamesque building, considered one of America's most important Neoclassical houses

Ninety-Six and Star Fort - 5/18/2003
A Loyalist stronghold early in the Revolution and fortified by the British in 1780, the site of a siege against the 550 Loyalists in the village, centered on an earthen fortification known as Star Fort

Old Exchange and Provost Dungeon (Charleston) - 10/27/2018
Built in 1767, it has served a variety of civic functions, including a POW facility operated by British forces during the Revolutionary War

Penn School Historic District - 4/10/2009
Founded in 1862, it was the first school in the Southern U.S. founded specifically for the education of African-Americans

Powder Magazine (Charleston) - 10/27/2018
Used as a gunpowder store through the Revolutionary War, it is the oldest surviving public building in the former Province of Carolina

Robert Brewton House (Charleston) - 10/27/2018
With a construction date at or before 1730, it is the oldest dated example of a "single" house -one room wide, with the narrow end towards the street

Snee Farm (Mount Pleasant) - 5/17/2003
The plantation home of a principal author and a signer of the U.S. Constitution

South Carolina State House (Columbia) - 4/10/2009
The building in the Greek Revival style houses the General Assembly and the offices of the Governor and Lieutenant Governor

St. James Church (Charleston County) - 10/26/2018
Built in 1768, it is a remarkably sophisticated expression of fashionable Georgian architecture in a remote area and one of a handful of surviving 18th-century country churches in the state

St. Michael's Episcopal Church (Charleston) - 10/27/2018
Built between 1751 and 1761 on the site of the original wooden church built in 1681, it is the oldest surviving religious structure in Charleston

St. Philip's Episcopal Church (Charleston) - 10/27/2018
Built in 1836, this stuccoed brick church features an imposing tower designed in the Wren-Gibbs tradition

Stono River Slave Rebellion Site (Rantowles) - 10/27/2018
The site of the 1739 slave rebellion led by native Africans from Kongo, the largest slave uprising in the British mainland colonies

Unitarian Church (Charleston) - 10/27/2018
Built in 1772 it is the oldest Unitarian church in the South the second oldest church in downtown Charleston

USS Clamagore (Mount Pleasant) - 10/26/2018
A Balao-class submarine built in 1945 and still in training when WWII ended, she is the only known surviving example of a GUPPY-type sub

USS Laffey (Mount Pleasant) - 10/26/2018
An Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer from WWII, nicknamed "The Ship That Would Not Die" for her exploits during the D-Day invasion and the battle of Okinawa

USS Yorktown (Mount Pleasant) - 10/26/2018
One of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during WWII, named after the Battle of Yorktown, and the fourth Navy ship to bear the name