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Adams Run’s post office opened in 1843, and 10% of its homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Wilkinson-Boineau House.

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10%homes built before 1940
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How Adams Run began

When was Adams Run founded?

1843

The Adams Run post office opened in 1843, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 421183 years
Founding year: the first Adams Run post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Adams Run’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Adams Run are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Deep rootsA post office since 1843: 183 years of Adams Run.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Adams Run’s history is told.

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The story so far

Adams Run, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Adams Run yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Adams Run is a census-designated place (CDP) in Charleston County, South Carolina, United States. It was first listed as a CDP in the 2020 census with a population of 421.

Its first post office opened in 1843.

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

By decade

Adams Run, decade by decade

Today1 recent
Adams Run South Carolina Post office 11-10-20062006Adams Run South Carolina Post office 11-10-2006
On the National Register

1 historic place in Adams Run

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
1999
Wilkinson-Boineau House
Wilkinson-Boineau House
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Greek Revival1
Wilkinson-Boineau HouseGreek Revival

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Places that used to be

Places now gone

Adams Run’s post office has been open since 1843.

Gone or out of use
Adams Run Schoolschool

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Hollywood1 historic placeD

Questions about Adams Run’s history

What year was Adams Run founded?

The Adams Run post office opened in 1843, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Adams Run?

One place: the Wilkinson-Boineau House (listed 1999).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.