Hephzibah Jenkins Townsend's Tabby Oven Ruins

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Hephzibah Jenkins Townsend's Tabby Oven Ruins
LocationAddress Restricted, Edisto Island, South Carolina
Area0.4 acres (0.16 ha)
Builtc. 1815 (1815)
MPS Edisto Island MRA
NRHP reference No. 86003200 [1]
Added to NRHPMay 5, 1987

Hephzibah Jenkins Townsend's Tabby Oven Ruins is a historic archaeological site located at Edisto Island, Charleston County, South Carolina. The remains represent what was essentially a commercial bakery.

The tabby ovens were built about 1815; tabby is a type of concrete. The site consists of in situ tabby walls and foundations, as well as portions of fallen walls and tabby rubble.

The oven's products were sold at Charleston by Hephzibah Jenkins Townsend of Bleak Hall Plantation to support the mission work of Edisto Island Baptist Church. [2] [3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. unknown (n.d.). "Hephzibah Jenkins Townsend's Tabby Oven Ruins" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved August 3, 2014.
  3. "Hephzibah Jenkins Townsend Tabby Oven Ruins, Charleston County (Address Restricted)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved August 1, 2014.