Dorchester County

Dorchester County, South Carolina, United States
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South Carolina Highway 61 (Q2502950)
item type: road
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

South Carolina Highway 61 (SC 61) is a 67-mile-long (108 km) state highway in the U.S. state of South Carolina. The highway is designated on a north–south direction, but physically travels in an east–west direction, from SC 30 in Charleston to U.S. Route 78 (US 78) near Branchville. The portion of SC 61 from Church Creek Bridge and 10 miles (16 km) north is designated a National Scenic Byway.

NRHP reference number: 83003831

Appleby's Methodist Church (Q4781298)
item type: church building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Appleby's Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church located near St. George, Dorchester County, South Carolina. It was probably built about 1840–1850, and is a one-story, wooden meeting house in the Greek Revival style. The building is clapboard and the medium gable roof is covered with asphalt shingles. Also on the property is a contributing late 19th-century cemetery.

NRHP reference number: 78002505

Indian Fields Methodist Campground (Q6020311)
item type: historic district
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Indian Field Methodist Campground is a camp meeting site for the Methodist Church in Dorchester County, South Carolina. It is on SC Route S-18-73, off US Route 15, about 5 mi (8 km) north of Saint George. Indian Field was built in 1848 and has been a site for religious gatherings for over 160 years. It is associated with the Indian Field United Methodist Church located on U.S. Highway 15 about 2 miles (3 km) north of the campground and just south of U.S. Highway 178. It was named a historic district of the National Register of Historic Places on March 30, 1973.

NRHP reference number: 73001707

Ashley River Historic District (Q4805573)
item type: historic district
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Ashley River Historic District is a historic district located west of the Ashley in the South Carolina Lowcountry in Charleston, South Carolina, United States. The Historic District includes land from five municipalities, almost equally split between Charleston and Dorchester counties. The district includes dry land, swamps, and marshes of the Rantowles Creek and Stono Swamp watershed.

NRHP reference number: 93001514, 10000861

Middleton Place (Q6842034)
item type: plantation
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Middleton Place is a plantation in Dorchester County, along the banks of the Ashley River west of the Ashley and about 15 miles (24 km) northwest of downtown Charleston, in the U.S. state of South Carolina. Built in several phases during the 18th and 19th centuries, the plantation was the primary residence of several generations of the Middleton family, many of whom played prominent roles in the colonial and antebellum history of South Carolina. The plantation, now a National Historic Landmark District, is used as a museum, and is home to the oldest landscaped gardens in the United States.

website: http://www.middletonplace.org/; NRHP reference number: 71000770

Summerville Police Department (Q7637723)
item type: municipal police

website: https://www.summervillepolice.com/

St. Paul Camp Ground (Q16900627)
item type: church building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

St. Paul Camp Ground, also known as St. Paul A.M.E. Camp Ground, is a historic African Methodist Episcopal camp meeting and national historic district located near Harleyville, Dorchester County, South Carolina. The district encompasses 43 contributing buildings. It was established about 1880, and the buildings and grounds are used for one week each year. The tabernacle is a one-story building clad in rough-sawn weatherboard. Also on the property are 54 tents, two stores, and a storage house.

NRHP reference number: 98000424

Chandler Bridge Formation (Q17508221)
item type: formation
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Chandler Bridge Formation is a geologic formation in South Carolina. It preserves fossils dating back to the Chattian (Late Oligocene) of the Paleogene period, corresponding to the Arikareean in the NALMA classification. The formation overlies the Ashley Formation and is overlain by the Edisto Formation.

WYFH (Q7958011)
item type: radio station
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

WYFH (90.7 FM) is a non-commercial, listener-supported radio station broadcasting a Christian talk and teaching format. Licensed to North Charleston, South Carolina, it serves the Charleston metropolitan area. The station is owned by the Charlotte-based Bible Broadcasting Network, Inc. National religious leaders heard on the Bible Broadcasting Network include Adrian Rogers, Chuck Swindoll, Joni Eareckson Tada and J. Vernon McGee.

website: http://www.bbnradio.org

Francis Beidler Forest (Q14709500)
item type: protected area
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Francis Beidler Forest is an Audubon wildlife sanctuary in Four Holes Swamp, a blackwater creek system in South Carolina, United States. It consists of over 18,000 acres (73 km²) of mainly bald cypress and tupelo gum hardwood forest and swamp with approximately 1,800 acres (7 km2) of old-growth forest. It is the largest virgin stand of cypress-tupelo forest in the world, with some Bald Cypress trees over 1,000 years old. It is a favorite haunt of birdwatchers and is used for biological research projects by area schools.

website: https://sc.audubon.org/visit/beidler

WAZS (Q7946928)
item type: radio station
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

WAZS (980 kHz) is an AM radio station licensed to Summerville, South Carolina, United States, serving the Charleston area. The station is currently owned by Norberto Sánchez through licensee Norsan Communications and Management, Inc., and broadcasts a Regional Mexican format known as La Raza 103.9 named for the frequency of its translator station W280EX.

WJNI (Q7951313)
item type: radio station
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

WJNI (106.3 MHz) is an FM radio station broadcasting an urban gospel radio format. It is licensed to Ladson, South Carolina, and it serves the Charleston metropolitan area. The station is currently owned by Kirkman Broadcasting with studios in the West Ashley section of Charleston.

website: http://www.wjnifm.com

Old White Meeting House Ruins and Cemetery (Q7085413)
item type: cemetery / archaeological site
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Old White Meeting House Ruins and Cemetery is a historic site near Summerville, Dorchester County, South Carolina. The meeting house was built about 1700, burned during the American Revolution in 1781, rebuilt in 1794, then reduced to ruins by the Charleston earthquake of 1886. The extant ruins include portions of each corner – the largest approximately 9’ high – and significant remnants of the foundation of walls. Also on the property is a contributing cemetery.

NRHP reference number: 97000445

Woodland High School (Q8032843)
item type: high school
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Woodland High School is located in Dorchester, SC, it was established in 1999. Sixty-four percent of students passed the HSAP on the first try, compared to eighty-four percent in the neighboring district. It was the high school of football star Tye Hill.

WWOS (Q7954674)
item type: radio station
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

WWOS (810 kHz) is an AM radio station broadcasting a Christian talk and teaching radio format, along with Southern gospel music. Licensed to Walterboro, South Carolina, it serves the Charleston metropolitan area. The station is currently owned by Grace Baptist Church of Orangeburg.

website: http://www.catholicradioinsc.com/; USGS GNIS ID: 1252417

Carroll Place (Q16852482)
item type: house
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Carroll Place, also known as Old Carroll Place, is a historic plantation house located near St. George, Dorchester County, South Carolina.

NRHP reference number: 74001849

Summerville Drive-In (Q43284441)
item type: movie theater / drive-in theater / destroyed building or structure

Street address: 10310 Highway 78 E, Summerville, SC 29483 (from Wikidata)

Dorchester County Library Bookmobile (Q69860020)
item type: public library / bookmobile

Street address: 506 N. Parler Avenue, St. George, SC 29477 (from Wikidata)

Lourie Theater (Q43285850)
item type: movie theater

Street address: 206 N. Parler Avenue, St. George, SC 29477 (from Wikidata)

website: http://www.lourietheater.com

Summerville Theatre (Q43285886)
item type: movie theater / destroyed building or structure

Street address: 133 S. Main Street, Summerville, SC 29483 (from Wikidata)