Basic Information

• Location – Harbor River, McClellanville, St. James Santee Parish, Charleston County

  Located at 8913 US 17 North, south of the Town of McClellanville
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – ?

• Current status – House no longer exists. A bed and breakfast is operated on the property.
  

Timeline

• 1850 – Earliest known date of existence

  Richard Tillia Morrison II purchased land from Joseph Legare.
  

• 1851 – Morrison expanded the place by purchasing 1,000 acres from Samuel B. Jones (Bridges & Williams, p. 266).
  

• 1852 – Morrison built a house on the property to replace the existing one which was in ruins.
  

• 1853 – Morrison purchased 688 acres from Richard Withers Shackelford to expand his property even further (Bridges & Williams, p. 266).
  

• ? – During the Civil War, to make money, Morrison made salt from the seawater at Laurel Hill. Several other planters in the area did the same thing (Bridges & Williams, p. 239).
  

• 1950 – The plantation was sold out of the Morrison family.
  

• 1983 – The house was moved to a marsh site on Doe Hall Plantation for restoration by Dr. Richard Leland Morrison III and his wife Jackie. It was destroyed September 21, 1989 by Hurricane Hugo (Bridges & Williams, p. 268).
  

• ? – Dr. Morrison and his wife, Jackie, began a bed and breakfast on the property.
  

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – Rice

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Joseph Legare; Dr. Richard Leland and Jackie Morrison; Richard Tillia Morrison II
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

• National Register of Historic Places
  – Nomination form - requires Adobe Reader. Submitted in January 1984 by Debra J. Allen and John E. Wells. Removed from the National Register in March 2000.
  – Photographs, architectural overview
  

Print Resources

• Initial references: 2

• Anne Baker Leland Bridges and Roy Williams III, St James Santee Plantation Parish History and Records, 1685-1925, (Spartanburg, SC: The Reprint Company, Publishers, 1997).
  

Contact Information

• Laurel Hill Plantation Bed & Breakfast Inn
  PO Box 190 (8913 N Highway 17)
  McClellanville, SC 29458
  

  Telephone: 888-887-3708

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