McClellanville Neighborhood Spotlight: Historic District

July 18th, 2008 Community Info, McClellanville Real Estate Daniel Bates

The historic district is McClellanville’s largest, most populated, and best known neighborhood. It is obviously named so because of it’s age and prevalent historic homes. Here, on the north eastern side of Jeremy Creek, McClellanville grew from a single plantation as streets, homes, and stores filled in under the old oak trees. Many people mistakenly think that it’s all there is to McClellanville, missing the turn off for Silver Hill and Skipper’s Point. Nonetheless, Historic District property carries the highest pricetags because of the high demand and relatively low turnover. Land is also less available here than in other more rural areas.

There are over a hundred homes, businesses, and churches predating 1935 in the historic district. The national historic registry has pictures and more information about many of them on their website .

New construction and home remodeling must be approved by an Architectural Review Board (ARB) to ensure that homes stay in keeping with the style of the rest of the Historic District. Zoning allows for new lots to be no smaller than 3/4 of an acre (1 acre for the rest of McClellanville), though many smaller lots were grandfathered in when the rule was created.

In the center of the Historic District on Pinckney Street is McClellanville’s quaint “downtown business district”, which consists of two restaurants, a handful of boutiques and artist studios, and our real estate office. Residents treat these local restaurants as social gathering places and catch up with friends and family dining on local seafood along side the weekend tourists.

Live oak lined streets are characteristic of the Historic District and the landmark Deerhead Oak stands above them all. Near the end of Pinckney Street lies the boat landing, Town Hall, Village Museum and playground. It is the site of the towns annual Shrimp Festival and many other public gatherings.

The Historic District is also home to the marina and the docks on Oak Street are where most of the shrimp boats dock and unload there fresh haul directly to the seafood markets.

There is obviously a lot going on in the Historic District, but above all is the community, which you can’t necessarily describe but you get a sense of it from the children riding bicycles and smiling faces and waves you get from passing pedestrians.

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