AIKEN-RHETT HOUSE MUSEUM

The Aiken-Rhett House, also known as Governor William Aiken House or Robinson-Aiken House, was built in 1820 on behalf of a merchant named John Robinson who sold him in 1827 to William Aiken Sr. At the time of his death, in 1833, the house returned to his son, William Aiken Jr., who was Governor of South Carolina from 1846 to 1844. The house remained the property of the family until the middle of the 1975 th century and was sold in 1995 at the Charleston Museum, before being finally acquired in by the Historic Charleston Foundation. It has now become one of the main places to visit De. It discovered the central building but also the dependencies used to shelter the many slaves serving the family before the abolition of slavery. The house has been registered in the National Register of Historic Sites since 1977.