Old Georgetown Road McLellanville, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places Data
Old Georgetown Road has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places with the following information, which has been imported from the National Register database and/or the Nomination Form . Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- National Register ID
- 14000382
- Date Listed
- June 27, 2014
- Name
- Old Georgetown Road
- Other Names
- Northern Stage Road; King's Highway
- Part of
- N/A (Multiple Property Submission)
- Address
- Old Georgetown Rd. between S. bank of the South Santee R. & SC 45
- City/Town
- McClellanville
- County
- Charleston
- State
- South Carolina
- Category
- structure
- Level of Sig.
- local
- Areas of Sig.
- TRANSPORTATION
Description
Text courtesy of the National Register of Historic Places, a program of the National Parks Service. Minor transcription errors or changes in formatting may have occurred; please see the Nomination Form PDF for official text. Some information may have become outdated since the property was nominated for the Register.
The Old Georgetown Road is eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places under Criterion A in the area of transportation at the local level for its significance as an intact early transportation route used continuously from the colonial period into the early twentieth century. This 6.6-mile section of the Old Georgetown Road is one ofthe last and longest continuously unpaved public portions of the 1,300-mile pre-Revolutionary road that connected Charleston, South Carolina to Boston, Massachusetts (Dollarhide 1997, 1 ). Located near McClellanville, South Carolina, the road passes through the region of South Carolina known as St. James, Santee, after the parish of the same name formed by the Church Act of 1706 (SJSBRC 2003, 69). The road's historic significance lies in its long history as a transportation route. Originally, this portion of the road was an Indian trading path, known as the Sewee Broad Path and associated with the Sewee Indians who lived on the 30-mile strip between Charleston Harbor and the Santee River (Miles 2001, 6). As the colony of South Carolina developed, the trading path became a stage road, critical to economic development in the St. James, Santee region. In addition, the Old Georgetown Road also played a role in the development of national transportation routes. It was part of the primary north-south route for travel up the coast of South Carolina and between colonies, as evidenced by its use during the Revolutionary War, as part of National Post Route, and by President George Washington, as part of his tour of the southern states in 1791. By the end of the first quarter of the 20111 century, a resurgence of interest in the state's history brought travelers to the region and road for tourism.
