Cassina Point Plantation – Edisto Island – Charleston County

— Cassina Point Plantation © Brandon Coffey, 2009 —
(Do Not Use Without Written Consent)

Basic Information

• Location – North Edisto River, Edisto Island, St. John's Colleton Parish, Charleston County

  1847 Olde Cassina Point
  

• Origin of name – The plantation was named for the cassina bush which is plentiful on Edisto Island and from which a tea was made (1, p. 2).

• Other names – Hopkinson House
  

• Current status – Privately owned and operated as a special events venue
  

— Sweet Potato Harvest at Cassina Point Plantation 1862 © Library of Congress —
(Prints & Photographs Division LOT 14024, no. 102)

Timeline

• 1835 – Earliest known date of existence

• 1847-48 – House built by James and Carolina Seabrook Lafayette Hopkinson (1, p. 2).
  

• ? – Cassina Point's land and house were occupied during the Civil War. One of the units taking up residence was the Third New Hampshire Regiment (1, p. 2).
  

• 1983 – Cassina Point Plantation remained in the hands of Hopkinson descendants until this year (5).
  

• 1987 – Bruce and Tecla Earnshaw bought the house plus a part of the plantation's acreage. They opened their home and ran it as a bed and breakfast until the mid-1990s (5).
  

• 2011 – Cassina Point Plantation began being operated as a special events venue (5).
  

Land

• Number of acres – 4 in 1986 (1, p. 2)

• Primary crop – Sea island cotton (1, p. 2)

— Cassina Point Plantation Lawn © Brandon Coffey, 2009 —
(Do Not Use Without Written Consent)

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

References & Resources

1. National Register of Historic Places
   – Nomination form - PDF - submitted in 1986
   – Photographs, architectural overview
   

2. 30-15 Plantation File, held by the South Carolina Historical Society

3. 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
   

4. Catherine Campart Messmer, South Carolina's Low Country - A Past Preserved Text (Orangeburg, SC: Sandlapper Publishing, 1988)
   

5. Brief history: Click here and scoll down
   

— Cassina Point Plantation © Darrell Parker, 2015 —
(Do Not Use Without Written Consent)

Contact Information

• Cassina Point Plantation
  1847 Olde Cassina Point
  Edisto Island, SC 29438
  

  Telephone: 843-869-2535
  Website: Click here