Willtown

{{short description|Archaeological site in South Carolina, United States}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}}

{{Infobox NRHP

| name = Willtown Bluff

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| image = Willtown Bluff, SC.jpg

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| 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{{NRISref|version=2010a}}

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Willtown Bluff, also known as Wilton and New London, is a historic settlement site located on the S. Edisto River near Adams Run, Charleston County, South Carolina. Founded about 1704, it was the second 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 remains are of a colonial village thought to have had 80 houses.{{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}}{{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}}

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.