“H” is for Hopsewee Plantation

“H” is for Hopsewee Plantation (Georgetown County). Hopsewee Plantation was the birthplace and boyhood home of Thomas Lynch, Jr, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. It is located about thirteen miles south of Georgetown at the point where U.S. Highway 17 crosses the north branch of the Santee River. This was also the site of the main colonial thoroughfare running north and South, the” King's Highway”. In the 1740s Thomas Lynch, Sr., built the house that still stands at Hopsewee. It is a two-and one-half-story black Cypress structure of mortise and tenon construction, set on a brick and tabby foundation. Its double tiered piazza displays the influence of West Indian architecture in the eighteenth-century lowcountry. Hopsewee Plantation was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1971 and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1972.