— Silk Hope Plantation © Brandon Coffey —

Basic Information

• Location – Eastern branch of the Cooper River, Huger, St. Thomas and St. Denis Parish, Berkeley County

  Located off SC 402 on Silk Hope Drive

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – ?

• Current status – ?

— Sideview of Silk Hope Plantation © Brandon Coffey —

Timeline

• 1696 – Earliest known date of existence

• 1995 – Current house built

— Porch of Silk Hope Plantation © Brandon Coffey —

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – ?

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Cherry, Heyward, Nathaniel Johnson, Manigault, Mr. and Mrs. Robert V. Royall
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

— Stairs at Silk Hope Plantation © Brandon Coffey —

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

• 2002 Cooper River Historic District National Register nomination

Print Resources

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

• SC Highway Historical Marker Guide - online database by the SC Department of Archives & History
  

• 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