Concrete in Lincolnville — the small town between Summerville and Ladson
Lincolnville was founded in 1867 and is still its own town of about 1,200 people on the Charleston County side, with houses from the 1980s and its own permit process. We treat it as the separate place it is.
Lincolnville is the small incorporated town along Lincolnville Road and the railroad between Summerville and Ladson — founded in 1867 by Bishop Richard Cain, about 1,200 people today, a median build year of 1987, on the Charleston County side of the three-county tangle. Being its own town matters: Lincolnville issues its own permits and business licenses, Charleston County's flood maps (effective January 2021) apply, and the county's encroachment rules govern the county-maintained roads, with SCDOT on US 78 at the edge. The ground is the same as Ladson's next door — Goldsboro, Lynchburg and Rains soils, water a foot or two down in winter — and the houses are old enough that their original driveways and walks are at the end of their lives.
Our Lincolnville work is the small-town version of what we do everywhere: driveway replacements on a real base, aprons permitted with the town or the county depending on the road, patios behind the older houses, shed and generator pads on the larger lots (outside the easements), foam lifting for the sunk approaches and walks, and the occasional foundation for an addition built to the seismic category and the flood map. We hold the town business license and we ask the town's office which permit applies before we pour, because a town of 1,200 does things its own way and it's faster to ask.
What we do in Lincolnville
Town permits and license
Lincolnville's own permit process and business license; we ask the town office what applies to your job first.
County and SCDOT aprons
Charleston County encroachment rules on county roads; SCDOT on US 78.
Driveway replacement
1980s slabs replaced on compacted stone with steel; foam lifting when they're sound but sunk.
Larger-lot pads
Shed, workshop, boat and generator pads placed outside the easements on the older, bigger lots.
Charleston County flood maps
Additions set to the 2021 maps and the freeboard rule where a lot is in a zone.
Seismic-category foundations
Addition footings to the engineer's plan over the same fault zone as Ladson's 2021 quake.
Neighborhoods and areas we cover
- Lincolnville
- Lincolnville Road
- Lincolnville Town Hall area
- Hodges Avenue area
- Railroad corridor
- US 78 edge
- Ladson border
- Summerville border
- Oakbrook side (county)
- Lincolnville Park area
- Hilltop area
- Dorchester County line
Concrete services available in Lincolnville
- Driveways, aprons, culverts & encroachment permits, builder driveway replacement
- Patios, pool decks, stamped concrete, pervious concrete
- Walkways, shed, RV & generator pads, foundations & additions
- Repair & leveling, removal
Questions from Lincolnville homeowners
Does Lincolnville issue its own permits?
Yes — it's an incorporated town with its own permit and business-license process. We hold the license and check with the town office on what your job needs; it's quick.
Which flood map applies?
Charleston County's, effective January 2021, for the parts of town in the county. Where a lot is in a zone, an addition's floor is set two feet above base flood.
Can you replace a 1987 driveway and apron?
Yes — the driveway on a compacted base with steel, and the apron permitted with the town or county depending on whose road it fronts. US 78 is SCDOT's.
Is a shed pad allowed on my back lot?
Outside the drainage and utility easements and within the town's setbacks, yes. We read the plat and ask the town before we pour.
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