Lobeco Packing Sheds

Historic Property

Alternate Name:

[unknown]

Street Address:

Fertile Rd.;(Beaufort County)

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Site Number:

120-157

Control Number:

U/13/120-157

Tax Number:

R700 037 000 0057 0000

Date Surveyed:

February 4 1997

Category:

Building

Construction Date:

circa 1940

Historic Use:

Industry/Processing/Extraction

Current Use:

Vacant/Not In Use

Historic Core Shape:

Rectangular

Number of Stories:

1

Construction Method:

frame

Exterior Walls Materials:

Asphalt Roll

Roof Materials:

corrugated metal

Signficant Architectural Features:

2 buildings adjacent to Seaboard Air Line track (track removed).Two former vegetable packing/loading sheds parallel to rail line.

Historical Information:

Vegetable packing sheds beside Seaboard Air Line Rilroad, which ran east through Coosaw where it crossed the ACL, then across Wimbee Creek (see Site #1200163) and the Combahee River into Colleton County. In the late 1930s Lobeco (name taken from first sy

Source of Historical Information:

South Carolina: The WPA Guide to the Palmetto State (1941, rep. 1988), p. 322.

Quadrangle Name:

Dale

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