Basic Information

• Location – Ashley River, West Ashley, St. Andrew's Parish, Charleston County

  Three miles west of peninsular Charleston on SC 61
  

• Origin of name – Named for Anthony Ashley Cooper, one of the Lords Proprietors
  

• Other names – ?

• Current status – Privately owned
  

Timeline

• 1676 – Earliest known date of existence

  Property granted to Stephen Bull

  The first dwelling erected on the plantation was a small one-story house. This was the house where Stephen Bull lived and where all of his children were born.
  

• 1704 – A large plantation house was built by Stephen Bull's eldest son.
  

  This mansion stood until 1865 when Colonel William Izard Bull set fire to it to save the home of his ancestors from destruction by his enemies.
  

Land

• Number of acres – 1,000

• Primary crop – ?

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Stephen Bull; William Bull; William Bull (nephew); William Izard Bull; Will Stephen Bull; Julius H. Jahnz; William C. Kennerty
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

• National Register of Historic Places
  – Nomination Form - submitted in 1975 by John W. Califf - requires Adobe Reader
  – Photographs, architectural overview
  

Print Resources

• Initial references: 1

• Rosina Sottile Kennerty, Plantations on the South Side of Ashley River (Charleston, SC: Nelson Printing Corporation, 1983).
  

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