Sams Plantation Complex Tabby Ruins

Sams Plantation Complex Tabby Ruins is a historic plantation complex and archaeological site located at Frogmore, Beaufort County, South Carolina. The site, possibly built upon and occupied well before 1783. It includes the ruins and/or archaeological remains of at least 12 tabby structures. They include the main plantation house, a rectangular enclosure consisting of tabby walls, a large tabby kitchen, and five tabby slave quarters. Also on the property were a variety of tabby dependencies including a barn/stable, a smokehouse or blade house, a well/dairy house, and a well. The property also includes the Sams family cemetery and Episcopal chapel enclosed by high tabby walls. Other structures include possibly an overseer's house, a granary/mill, and a tabby cotton house. During and subsequent to the American Civil War, the Sams Tabby Complex was occupied by freedmen. Following the Civil War, the plantation house was destroyed by hurricanes.^[3][4]

Sams Plantation Complex Tabby Ruins
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Sams Plantation Complex Tabby Ruins, June 2012
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Location	Southern end of Dataw (Datha) Island near the intersection of Dataw Dr. and Dataw Club Rd., at Mink's Point near Jenkins Creek, near Frogmore, South Carolina
Coordinates	32°25′51″N 80°35′40″W
Area	10 acres (4.0 ha)
Built	c. 1783 (1783)
MPS	Historic Resources of St. Helena Island c. 1740-c. 1935 MPS
NRHP reference No.	88001820[1][2]
Added to NRHP	March 4, 2011

It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.^[1]