National Register of Historic Places - South Carolina (SC), Aiken County

Aiken County South Carolina (Historic Districts) has 10 places on the National Register of Historic Places including 3 places of National significance and 1 place of Statewide significance. Significant places include Aiken Mile Track, Aiken Training Track, Graniteville Historic District and Vaucluse Mill Village Historic District and Aiken Winter Colony Historic District I.

The famous person William Gregg is associated with one of more of the Aiken County historic places.

Some of the country's most noteable architects helped create the Aiken County places including Ira Coward, J.B. White, William Gregg and Amos Lockwood. Prominent architectural styles found in Aiken Country are Bungalow/Craftsman, Late Victorian and Classical Revival.

Aiken Mile Track (added 1985 - - #85000991)

Banks Mill Rd. , Aiken

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Historic Significance:

Event

Area of Significance:

Entertainment/Recreation, Social History

Period of Significance:

1925-1949

Owner:

Private

Historic Function:

Agriculture/Subsistence, Recreation And Culture

Historic Sub-function:

Animal Facility, Sport Facility

Current Function:

Agriculture/Subsistence, Recreation And Culture

Current Sub-function:

Animal Facility, Sport Facility

Aiken Training Track (added 1985 - - #85000992)

Two Notch Rd. , Aiken

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Historic Significance:

Event

Area of Significance:

Entertainment/Recreation, Social History

Period of Significance:

1925-1949

Owner:

Private

Historic Function:

Agriculture/Subsistence, Recreation And Culture

Historic Sub-function:

Animal Facility, Sport Facility

Current Function:

Agriculture/Subsistence, Recreation And Culture

Current Sub-function:

Animal Facility, Sport Facility

Aiken Winter Colony Historic District I (added 1984 - - #84000484)

Off U.S. 1/78 , Aiken

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Historic Significance:

Event, Architecture/Engineering

Architect, builder, or engineer:

Multiple

Architectural Style:

No Style Listed

Area of Significance:

Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Entertainment/Recreation

Period of Significance:

1925-1949, 1900-1924, 1875-1899

Owner:

Private, Local

Historic Function:

Domestic, Education, Landscape, Recreation And Culture

Historic Sub-function:

Plaza, School, Single Dwelling, Sport Facility, Unoccupied Land

Current Function:

Domestic, Education, Landscape, Recreation And Culture

Current Sub-function:

Plaza, School, Single Dwelling, Sport Facility, Unoccupied Land

Aiken Winter Colony Historic District II (added 1984 - - #84000498)

Also known as See Also:Willcox's;Joye Cottage

Roughly bounded by RR track, Colleton and 3rd Aves., Laurens, South Boundary, and Marion Sts. , Aiken

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Historic Significance:

Event, Architecture/Engineering

Architectural Style:

No Style Listed

Area of Significance:

Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Entertainment/Recreation

Period of Significance:

1925-1949, 1900-1924, 1875-1899

Owner:

Private, Local

Historic Function:

Domestic, Recreation And Culture

Historic Sub-function:

Hotel, Outdoor Recreation, Single Dwelling, Sport Facility

Current Function:

Domestic, Recreation And Culture

Current Sub-function:

Hotel, Outdoor Recreation, Single Dwelling, Sport Facility

Aiken Winter Colony Historic District III (added 1984 - - #84000508)

Also known as See Also:Rose Hill

Roughly bounded by Edgefield Ave., Highland Park Dr., Fauburg, and Greenville St. , Aiken

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Historic Significance:

Event, Architecture/Engineering

Architectural Style:

Shingle Style, Queen Anne

Area of Significance:

Architecture, Entertainment/Recreation

Period of Significance:

1900-1924, 1875-1899

Owner:

Private, Local

Historic Function:

Domestic, Education

Historic Sub-function:

School, Single Dwelling

Current Function:

Domestic, Education

Current Sub-function:

School, Single Dwelling

Georgia Avenue-Butler Avenue Historic District (added 1984 - - #84002017)

Georgia, Butler Aves. and Martintown Rd. , North Augusta

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Historic Significance:

Architecture/Engineering

Architect, builder, or engineer:

Unknown

Architectural Style:

Classical Revival, Late Victorian, Tudor Revival

Area of Significance:

Architecture

Period of Significance:

1925-1949, 1900-1924, 1875-1899, 1850-1874

Owner:

Private

Historic Function:

Domestic

Historic Sub-function:

Single Dwelling

Current Function:

Domestic

Current Sub-function:

Single Dwelling

Graniteville Historic District (added 1978 - - #78002491)

SC 19 and Gregg St. , Graniteville

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Historic Significance:

Person, Event, Architecture/Engineering

Architect, builder, or engineer:

Gregg,William, White,J.B.

Architectural Style:

Gothic Revival, Other

Historic Person:

Gregg,William

Significant Year:

1849, 1867, 1846

Area of Significance:

Industry, Community Planning And Development, Social History

Period of Significance:

1850-1874, 1825-1849

Owner:

Private

Historic Function:

Domestic, Education, Industry/Processing/Extraction, Religion

Historic Sub-function:

Institutional Housing, Manufacturing Facility, Religious Structure, School, Single Dwelling, Water Works

Current Function:

Domestic, Industry/Processing/Extraction

Current Sub-function:

Manufacturing Facility, Single Dwelling

Hickman Mill Historic District (added 2016 - - #16000046)

Graniteville, Graniteville

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Historic Significance:

Event, Architecture/Engineering

Architectural Style:

Late 19th And Early 20th Century American Movements, Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals

Area of Significance:

Architecture, Industry, Other

Period of Significance:

1900-1974 AD

Salley Historic District (added 2000 - - #00000554)

Bounded by Pine, Ferguson, Poplar, and Aldrich Sts. , Salley

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Historic Significance:

Architecture/Engineering, Event

Architectural Style:

Bungalow/Craftsman, Late Victorian

Area of Significance:

Architecture, Commerce

Period of Significance:

1925-1949, 1900-1924, 1875-1899

Owner:

Local, Private

Historic Function:

Commerce/Trade, Domestic, Transportation

Historic Sub-function:

Business, Rail-Related, Single Dwelling

Current Function:

Commerce/Trade, Domestic, Vacant/Not In Use

Current Sub-function:

Business, Single Dwelling

Vaucluse Mill Village Historic District (added 1996 - - #96000494)

SC 191, 3 mi. N of Graniteville and 6 mi. W of Aiken , Vaucluse

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Historic Significance:

Architecture/Engineering, Event

Architect, builder, or engineer:

Lockwood, Amos

Architectural Style:

Greek Revival, Bungalow/Craftsman, Other

Area of Significance:

Industry, Social History, Architecture

Period of Significance:

1925-1949, 1900-1924, 1875-1899, 1850-1874, 1825-1849

Owner:

Private

Historic Function:

Commerce/Trade, Domestic, Industry/Processing/Extraction, Recreation And Culture

Historic Sub-function:

Department Store, Manufacturing Facility, Multiple Dwelling, Single Dwelling, Theater, Water Works

Current Function:

Commerce/Trade, Domestic, Government, Landscape

Current Sub-function:

Parking Lot, Post Office, Single Dwelling, Warehouse