Fairfield Rice Mill Chimney

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.

Fairfield Rice Mill Chimney
Fairfield Rice Mill Chimney is located in South Carolina
Fairfield Rice Mill Chimney
Fairfield Rice Mill Chimney is located in the United States
Fairfield Rice Mill Chimney
LocationOff U.S. Route 17, near Georgetown, South Carolina
Coordinates33°23′33″N 79°13′11″W
Arealess than one acre
MPSGeorgetown County Rice Culture MPS
NRHP reference No.88000527[1]
Added to NRHPOctober 3, 1988

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