Basic Information

• Location – Hilton Head Island, Beaufort County

  In Sea Pines Plantation, a present-day real estate development, at junction of Baynard Park Road and Plantation Drive
  

• Origin of name – Named for Captain David Cutler Braddock, commander of the colonial half-galley Beaufort in 1742.
  

• Other names – Braddock Cove, Calibogue Point, Stoney-Baynard Hall
  

• Current status – Listed on National Register of Historical Places – privately owned
  

  "Today, the tabby structure is comprised of a foundation and the outer structure or shell of the home. Seen from a distance, the ruins seem blurred. Up close, the thousands of oyster shells create a honeycomb, a complex texture that is simultaneously pocked and smooth. There are windows that look like ancient portholes, and bits of stucco still cling to the tabby. The effect is not unlike that of a medieval abbey or a Roman ruin, the remnants of a dream (56)."

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence
  

  Plantation was "composed of Lots 46 and 47 of Bayley’s Barony [and] described as lands formerly leased by John Gamble and James Gray" (57).
  

• 1793-1820 – House built by James Stoney
  

  Historians differ on exact date. The South Carolina Institute of Archeology & Anthropology frames construction between 1800 and 1820 (58). Another estimate falls as early as 1793 (56), while author Robert Peeples states that "the Braddock Point Plantation house apparently was built by the Stoney’s around 1796" (57).
  

• November 10-11, 1861 – Civil War engagement – Expedition to Braddock's Point
  

• 1867 – Stoney-Baynard Hall burned sometime between the middle of August and the middle of December (59).
  

Land

• Number of acres – 1,000 (at least from 1776 to 1840)
  

• Primary crops – Cotton, corn, peas, sweet potatoes
  

  The plantation also sold butter.
  

Owners

• In order – Peter Bayley, John Mark Verdier, Captain James Stoney and Captain John Stoney (1776), Dr. George Mosse Stoney, eldest son "Saucy Jack" (given name unknown, 1838), William Baynard, Catherine Adelaide and William Eddings Baynard, Ephraim Baynard, William P. Clyde (1894), Roy A. Rainey (1919), Thorne and Loomis (1931), Hilton Head Company (1951)
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves –

Buildings

• House – The walls were two feet thick and constructed from tabby, "a mixture of oyster shells, some whole and others burnt to a lime powder, as well as sand and water (56)."
  

  More about tabby plus photograph

Web Resources

• The Stoney-Baynard Ruins: The Story of the Ruins
  

• Stoney-Baynard Ruins Slave Dwelling, Stoney-Baynard Ruins - scroll down
  

Print Resources

• Initial references: 4

• Trinkley, Chicora Foundation Research Series #24, Preliminary Historical Research on the Baynard Plantation, Hilton Head Island, Beaufort County, South Carolina, pages 15-17
  

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