Historical Attractions|...points of interest
Note:
* Private homes, buildings and cemeteries are not open to the public except on prearranged tours.
** Open during regular meeting hours only.
*** Tuesdays & Wednesday, 11 am - 1:30 pm and by appointment (803) 827-0184
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Redcliffe Plantation State Historic Site Built between 1857
and 1859, Redcliffe's Greek Revival mansion is the focal point of the
site's historic interpretation. Redcliffe also has several historic
outbuildings including a slave cabin, and 369 acres of historic |
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Granville Plantation The "old Dicks home" as it
was known by the old folks around Beech Island for over a hundred and
fifty years, was built in 1840 by Alfred N. Dicks, the son of Jonathan Dicks and Lucy Stone Dicks, and the great grandson of John Dicks and Mary
Gascoigne Dicks. It faced the stagecoach trail which was the |
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Beech Island Agricultural Club The Beech Island Agricultural Club is one of
the oldest surviving societies in the State of South Carolina and possibly
one of the oldest in the South. Except for a period of one month
near the end of the War Between the States, the club has not missed a
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landscape. Special programs are offered throughout the year as well. The
site is open to the public Thursdays through Mondays 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Guided tours of the Hammond Family home are offered those same days
beginning at noon with the last tour at 3 p.m. Admission to the grounds
is free; house tours are $3 per adult; $2 youth 6-18. The site, which is
closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays, is located at 181 Redcliffe Road, Beech
Island, SC 29842. (803) 827-1473 
only route
from Hamburg to Charleston. It later became known as the Minor's Bridge
Road and parts of it are still in use today. The house was located near
the junction of Pine Log Road and Minor's
Bridge Road, in Beech Island, which was known as the New Windsor Township
during Colonial days. The county was known as Granville County and
stretched from the mountains to the ocean. The
family cemetery has markers dating back to 1805, and had been the resting
place for Alfred's mother, father, and five of his brothers and sisters
when he erected a stone in their memory on January 1, 1857. The
house had ten original rooms and ten fireplaces, was finished with plaster
and wallpaper, and though not fancy, was a fine home at the time it was
built. For directions and contact information visit 
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for over one hundred and forty years. Formed in 1846 near Silver
Bluff, the club was designed to address the many things happening that
would have a profound effect on the plantation economy of the area.
In August of 1856, club member, Samuel Clarke, conveyed to the club a half
acre of land where the original club house was built. It was built
of vertical clapboards of heart pine and cypress shingles. Before
this building was set afire by an arsonist on August 10, 1967, insightful
members removed the treasure trove of valuable pictures and documents to
the attic of member, Frank Atkinson, for safe-keeping thus preserving
volumes of Beech Island history. Among documents owned by the club
is General Order #9. It was General Robert E. Lee's farewell
address to his troops. Signed and presented by General Lee himself
to club member, William H. Atkinson, the document has been the property of
the club since 1909. (PBS Television recently completed filming a
feature of this document in Beech Island. see more) The
present building is built of concrete blocks with steel sash windows and
is an able host to the myriad of valuable photos and documents that adorn
its walls. Today, with a membership of 125 and a waiting list, the
Beech Island Agricultural Club continues its rich historic heritage and
traditions that were set by the founding members over a hundred and forty
years earlier.