— Middleton Place Plantation © Brandon Coffey —

Basic Information

• Location – Ashley River, West Ashley, St George Parish, Dorchester County
  

  Located on SC 61 northwest of Charleston

• Origin of name – Named for Henry Middleton, an early owner
  

• Other names – ?

• Current status – Owned by the Middleton Place Foundation - open to the public
  

Timeline

• 1675 – Earliest known date of existence; warrant issued to Jacob Wayte (Waight)

• 1755 – House built

• 1865 – Union troops occupied the plantation and on February 22, the plantation was ransacked and its main house and northern wing were burned beyond repair.
  

• 1869-1870 – The southern wing of the house, which was less severely damaged, was restored.
  

Land

• Number of acres – 200

• Primary crop – Rice

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Baker, Richard Godfrey (1699), Arthur Middleton, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Middleton, J. J. Pringle Smith, Waight (Wayte), Williams
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• Slave chapel, gentlemen's guest quarters

• Daughter Overnights with Dad who Works to Preserve Slave Dwellings - Joseph McGill, a program officer for the National Trust for Historic Preservation, documents his overnight stay in a slave cabin at Middleton Place Plantation in March 2011
  

Web Resources

• National Register of Historic Places
  – Nomination form - PDF - submitted in 1970
  – Photographs, architectural overview
  

• Middleton Place pictures

• Daughter Overnights with Dad who Works to Preserve Slave Dwellings - Joseph McGill, a program officer for the National Trust for Historic Preservation, documents his overnight stay in a slave cabin at Middleton Place Plantation in March 2011
  

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

Print Resources

• 30-15 Plantation File, South Carolina Historical Society
  –  Online Catalog

• William P. Baldwin Jr., Plantations of the Low County: South Carolina 1697-1865 (Westbrook, ME: Legacy Publishing, 1994)
   Order Plantations of the Low County: South Carolina 1697-1865
  

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

• Samuel Gaillard Stoney, Plantations of the Carolina Low Country (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 1990)
  
  

Contact Information

• Middleton Place
  4300 Ashley River Road
  Charleston, SC 29414
  

  Telephone: 800-782-3608
  Website: Click here
  

More about Dorchester County

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