— Quinby Plantation house after moved to Halidon Hill Plantation © Brandon Coffey —

Basic Information

• Location – Eastern branch of the Cooper River, Huger, St. John's Berkeley Parish, Berkeley County

  Located off SC 41 on Cainhoy Road

• Origin of name – William J. Ball changed the name to Halidon Hill in 1843
  

• Other names – Simons Ville, Horts

• Current status – Privately owned

— Rear of Quinby Plantation house after moved to Halidon Hill Plantation © Brandon Coffey —

Timeline

• 1681 – Earliest known date of existence

  John Ashby received a land grant

• 1792 – House built

• 1954 – The Quinby house was moved four miles through the woods and down a narrow highway to its present site at Halidon Hall. It was renovated by Mr. and Mrs. Huguenin.
  

Land

• Halidon Hill was originally part of Middleburg Plantation.
  

• Number of acres – 540

• Primary crop – Rice

Owners

• Alphabetical list – William J. Ball, John Bryan, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Coen, William and Catherine Simons Hort, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Huguenin, Benjamin Simons
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

• National Register of Historic Places
  – Nomination form for Quinby Plantation house - PDF - submitted in 1985
  – Photographs, architectural overview
  

• National Register of Historic Places
  – Nomination form for Cooper River Historic District - PDF - submitted in 2002
  – Photographs, architectural overview
  

Print Resources

• 30-15 Plantation File, South Carolina Historical Society
  –  Online Catalog

• William P. Baldwin Jr., Plantations of the Low County: South Carolina 1697-1865 (Westbrook, ME: Legacy Publishing, 1994)
   Order Plantations of the Low County: South Carolina 1697-1865
  

• Claude Henry Neuffer, editor, Names in South Carolina, Volume I through 30 (Columbia, SC: The State Printing Company)
   Order Names in South Carolina, Volumes I-XII, 1954-1965
   Order Names in South Carolina, Index XIII-XVIII
  

• 30-14 Plantation File, South Carolina Historical Society
  –  Online Catalog

• John Beaufain Irving, A Day on Cooper River (1842) (Whitefish, MT: Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010)
  
  

• J. Russell Cross, Historic Ramblin's through Berkeley (Columbia, SC: R.L. Bryan Company, 1985)
   Order Historic Ramblin's through Berkeley

• Sankofa's Plantation Data Collection
  

• Catherine Campant Messner, South Carolina's Low Country: A Past Preserved (Orangeburg, SC: Sandlapper Publishing Company, 1988)
   Order South Carolina's Low Country: A Past Preserved