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{{short description|Archaeological site in South Carolina, United States}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}}
{{Infobox NRHP
| name        = Willtown Bluff
| nrhp_type   =
| image       = Willtown Bluff, SC.jpg
| caption     =
| location    = Southwest of Adams Run at the end of County Road 55 on the banks of the S. Edisto River, near [[Adams Run, South Carolina]]
| coordinates = {{coord|32|40|54|N|80|24|54|W|display=inline,title}}
| locmapin    = South Carolina#USA
| built       = c. {{Start date|1704}}
| added       = January 8, 1974
| area        = {{convert|127.3|acre}}
| refnum      = 74001830<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>
}}
'''Willtown Bluff''', also known as '''Wilton''' and '''New London''', is a historic settlement site located on the [[Edisto River|S. Edisto River]] near [[Adams Run, South Carolina|Adams Run]], [[Charleston County, South Carolina]]. Founded about 1704, it was the second [[Planned community|planned town]] to be established after the relocation of Charleston in 1682. Willtown served as a local governmental center (polling place, court of pleas, magistrate court) and regional commercial center. The property includes three early-19th-century buildings: the Parsonage (c. 1836), the Willtown Plantation House (c. 1820), and the remains of a single column of the Episcopal Church (c. 1836). Unexposed [[archaeological site|remains]] are of a colonial village thought to have had 80 houses.<ref name = nrhpinv>{{Cite web | author = Elias B. Bull and William H. Brabham | title = Willtown Bluff| work = National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory | date = July 1973| url = http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/charleston/S10817710074/S10817710074.pdf | format = pdf | accessdate = 3 August 2014}}</ref><ref name=scdah>{{cite web|title=Willtown Bluff, Charleston County (S.C. Sec. Rd. 55, Adams Run vicinity)|url=http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/charleston/S10817710074/index.htm|work=National Register Properties in South Carolina|publisher=South Carolina Department of Archives and History|accessdate=2014-08-01}}</ref>
It was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1974.<ref name="nris"/>
==References==
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{{National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina}}
[[Category:Planned communities in the United States]]
[[Category:Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina]]
[[Category:National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina]]
[[Category:Populated places on the National Register of Historic Places]]
[[Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1836]]
[[Category:Buildings and structures in Charleston County, South Carolina]]
[[Category:National Register of Historic Places in Charleston County, South Carolina]]
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