Basic Information

• Location – Submerged under Lake Moultrie, St. John's Berkeley Parish, Berkeley County

  Plantation lands were originally located five miles west of present-day Bonneau.
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – ?

• Current status – In 1939, work began on the Santee Cooper Hydroelectric and Navigation Project. This project displaced many families and communities, and many historic homes were lost as the area was flooded.
  

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• 1716 – House built by Peter de St. Julien Malacare

• 1842 – House burned. The upper story was destroyed, but the fortress-like walls of the half-story were undamaged and the house was soon restored with no serious loss.
  

Land

• Number of acres – 800

• Primary crop – Cotton and indigo

Owners

• Alphabetical list – A. M. Barnes; Clarence Dillon; Theodore S. DuBose; Gaillard; Mazyck; General William Moultrie; Percival Ravenel Porcher; Henry W. Ravenel; General Moultrie Ravenel; Peter de St. Julien Malacare; Henry LeNoble Stevens
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves –

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

• Northampton Historic Marker

• Diaries written at Northampton and Pooshee Plantations, 1865

Print Resources

• Initial references: See #1

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

• Norman Sinkler Walsh, MD, Plantations, Pineland Villages, Pinopolis and Its People (Virginia Beach, VA: Donning Company Publishers, 2006).