Clio Historic District
National Register Listing
Street Address:
SC 9 and SC 381, Clio, SC (Marlboro County)
NRHP Nomination
Record Number:
S10817735003
Description and Narrative:
The Clio Historic District is notable as an unusually intact collection of late nineteenth and early twentieth century vernacular architectural design, including commercial, residential, and religious examples. Design influences include the Queen Anne, Victorian, Classical Revival, and Colonial Revival styles. The district centers along a downtown commercial district and extends outward to include significant residential sections of the town of Clio. Most of the properties were built or remodeled during the town’s boom period, from about 1895 until about 1920. The majority of these properties were constructed by local contractors without the help of an architect. The district continues to retain a unique sense of place as a small turn-of-the-century South Carolina community. Historically, Clio is significant as an economic center of northeastern Marlboro County. Its growth and development consequently reflect the evolution of a small South Carolina community which felt the combined impact of the changes that occurred in the rural trading patterns of the nineteenth century South - of railroad expansion into agricultural areas during that period, and of the great increase in cotton production. Listed in the National Register July 16, 1979.
Period of Significance:
1880
Level of Significance:
State
Area of Significance:
Transportation;Agriculture;Architecture;Commerce
National Register Determination:
listed
Date of Certification:
July 16 1979
