Bucksville is a small unincorporated community

Unincorporated area

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 in Horry County

Horry County, South Carolina

Horry County is a county located in the U.S. state of South Carolina. This name honored Revolutionary War Hero, Peter Horry. Brigadier General Horry was born in South Carolina sometime around 1743 and started his distinguished military career in 1775 as one of 20 captains the Provincial Congress...

, South Carolina

South Carolina

South Carolina is a state in the Deep South of the United States that borders Georgia to the south, North Carolina to the north, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. Originally part of the Province of Carolina, the Province of South Carolina was one of the 13 colonies that declared independence...

, United States

United States

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. It lies near Bucksport

Bucksport, South Carolina

Bucksport is a census-designated place in Horry County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 1,117 at the 2000 census. It is also a rural port on the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway at the merger point with the Waccamaw River...

 on the Pee Dee River

Pee Dee River

The Pee Dee River, also known as the Great Pee Dee River, is a river in North Carolina and South Carolina. It originates in the Appalachian Mountains in North Carolina, where its upper course above the mouth of the Uwharrie River is known as the Yadkin River. It is extensively dammed for flood...

 and Waccamaw River

Waccamaw River

The Waccamaw River is a river, approximately 140 miles long, in southeastern North Carolina and eastern South Carolina in the United States. It drains an area of approximately 1110 square miles in the coastal plain along the eastern border between the two states into the Atlantic Ocean...

. Two properties are listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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: the Buck's Upper Mill Farm

Buck's Upper Mill Farm

Buck's Upper Mill Farm, also known as Henry Buck House, is a historic home located at Bucksville in Horry County, South Carolina. The house was built about 1838 and is a typical two-story, central hall, framed farmhouse, or "I"-House. The front façade features a full-length one-story porch with a...

 and Hebron Church

Hebron Church (Bucksville, South Carolina)

Hebron Church, also known as Hebron Methodist Church, is a historic Methodist church located at Bucksville in Horry County, South Carolina. The sanctuary was built about 1855 and is a rectangular “meeting house form” one-story frame church with batten siding and a gable roof covered with tin...

.

History

Henry Buck of Bucksport, Maine moved to South Carolina in the 1820s to start lumber

Lumber

Lumber or timber is wood in any of its stages from felling through readiness for use as structural material for construction, or wood pulp for paper production....

 mills; Horry County had a significant timber industry with its cypress

Cypress

Cypress is the name applied to many plants in the cypress family Cupressaceae, which is a conifer of northern temperate regions. Most cypress species are trees, while a few are shrubs...

, pine

Pine

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 and hardwood

Hardwood

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 forests. One of Buck's mills was in what became Bucksport

Bucksport, South Carolina

Bucksport is a census-designated place in Horry County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 1,117 at the 2000 census. It is also a rural port on the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway at the merger point with the Waccamaw River...

. Sawmills in Bucksport and Bucksville produced 3 million board feet of lumber annually by 1850. Buck used his ships to transport lumber to Georgetown

Georgetown, South Carolina

Georgetown is the third oldest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina and the county seat of Georgetown County, in the Low Country. Located on Winyah Bay at the confluence of the Great Pee Dee River, Waccamaw River, and Sampit River, Georgetown is the second largest seaport in South Carolina,...

 and Charleston

Charleston, South Carolina

Charleston is the second largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina. It was made the county seat of Charleston County in 1901 when Charleston County was founded. The city's original name was Charles Towne in 1670, and it moved to its present location from a location on the west bank of the...

 in South Carolina and as far away as New York City

New York City

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 and Boston

Boston

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, and even to other countries. Lumber from Buck's operation even went into the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge

Brooklyn Bridge

The Brooklyn Bridge is one of the oldest suspension bridges in the United States. Completed in 1883, it connects the New York City boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn by spanning the East River...

. The Independent Republic Quarterly

Independent Republic Quarterly

The Independent Republic Quarterly is a publication of the Historical Society in Horry County, South Carolina founded in 1967. It is one of the few secondary sources on the Grand Strand and Myrtle Beach areas....

said, "By 1860, due largely to Bucksville and Bucksport, Horry District had become one of the five greatest timber-producing districts in the state." Buck also was one of the largest slave owners in Horry County, with a plantation

Plantation

A plantation is a long artificially established forest, farm or estate, where crops are grown for sale, often in distant markets rather than for local on-site consumption...

 of 20,000 acres in the Bucksville community. The house, built in 1828, was restored in 1984 by Buck family members who continue to live there in 2011. The slave cemetery

Cemetery

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is still in use.