Browntown (Johnsonville, South Carolina)

Browntown is a national historic district located near Johnsonville, Florence County, South Carolina. The district encompasses 7 contributing buildings and 4 contributing structures reflecting the self-sufficient way of life practiced by several generations of the Brown family during the 19th and early-20th centuries. Moses Brown and his son and grandsons were self-sufficient farmers who operated their own brick kiln, grist mill, lumber mill, cotton gin, retail and wholesale mercantile business, and school. The property nominated includes the cotton gin building, three residences, the school, a tobacco barn, and several outbuildings. Browntown includes examples of both log and frame construction, and are grouped in two complexes, one group adjacent to the road and the other across the fields around the cotton gin building.[2][3]

Browntown
Browntown Cotton Gin, HAER Photo, March 1987
LocationSouth Carolina Highway 341, near Johnsonville, South Carolina
Coordinates33°47′59″N 79°37′49″W
Area104 acres (42 ha)
ArchitectMultiple
NRHP reference No.82003850[1]
Added to NRHPJune 28, 1982

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[1]

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Elaine Eaddy; Suzanne Pickens Wylie & John Wells (August 1983). "Browntown" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved 20 October 2012.
  3. "Browntown, Florence County (S.C. Hwy 341, Johnsonville vicinity)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 20 October 2012.


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