Basic Information

• Location – Ashley River, West Ashley, St. Andrews Parish, Charleston County

  Original plantation lands were located on both sides of St Andrews Boulevard. Part of the land is present-day Maryville Community.
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – Hillsboro Hills

• Current status – Part of the plantation is now the Maryville Community. The rest of the property has been developed.
  

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• 1834 – Edward H. Fishburne purchased Hillsborough from the Lining family (Kennerty, p. 5).
  

• 1853 – Alexander H. Brown owned the plantation at this time. He purchased about 90 acres of marshland and added it to the plantation lands.
  

• 1870 – Alexander H. Brown conveyed the plantation to his daughter, Alice M. Legare. The plantation consisted of 550 acres.
  

• 1879 – Alice M. Legare sold the plantation to C.C. Bowen, a "sometime Sheriff of Charleston County."
  

• ? – The plantation lands were divided up.
  

• 1887 – Mary Just purchased several hundred acres of the plantation and founded Maryville, an African-American community. Her son, Ernest Everett Just, was a noted scientist.
  

Land

• Number of acres – 550 in 1870

• Primary crop – ?

Owners

• Alphabetical list – C.C. Bowen; Alexander H. Brown; Edward H. Fishburne; Hill; Alice M. Legare; Charles Lining; McBurney
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

• Ernest Everett Just

Print Resources

• Initial references: See #10

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

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