Beaufort County historic-resources survey recommends post‑1950 sites, including Moss Creek district, for National Register eligibility

Althea Wunderler Selby, an architectural historian with Stantec, and Sandy Shannon, an architectural historian with Stantec, told Beaufort County officials that their county‑commissioned historic resources survey documented 14 properties encompassing 34 resources and recommended several post‑1950 sites and one district as potentially eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places.

The survey, funded jointly by Beaufort County and a National Park Service grant administered by the South Carolina Division of Archives and History (the State Historic Preservation Office, or SHPO), focused on properties built between 1950 and 1979 and re‑evaluated six pre‑1950 properties that had been judged eligible in a 1998 survey.

The project matters locally because it identifies mid‑20th century sites — including resources tied to Black and Gullah Geechee history — that were not previously documented for the National Register and could be preserved or nominated by property owners or the county. Selby said the survey was intended to update the county’s historic context for the post‑World War II era and to provide information property owners could use if they later pursue formal National Register nominations.

Stantec said the field effort produced photographic documentation and condition notes for 34 "resources" (defined…