Tombee Plantation is a historic

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located on Saint Helena Island near

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. It was built about 1790–1800, and is two-story, T-shaped frame dwelling. It is sheathed in clapboard and has a gable roof. It features a single-story front

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with four square columns and a two-story balustraded rear porch with six square columns on each floor. Along with Seaside Plantation, it is one of the few surviving

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plantation houses remaining on St. Helena Island. The Tombee Plantation property was divided into tracts during the days of the "

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" in 1862. It remained in the hands of descendants of freed slaves until 1971. It was listed in the

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in 1975.

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African-American history of South Carolina Plantation houses in South Carolina Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina Houses completed in 1800 Houses in Beaufort County, South Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Beaufort County, South Carolina {{AfricanAmerican-stub