Basic Information

• Location – Battery Creek (a branch of the Beaufort River), Beaufort, St Helena Parish, Beaufort County
  

  Original plantation lands were located off SC 280
  

• Origin of name –

• Other names –

• Current status –

Timeline

• 1737 – Earliest known date of existence

• 1737 – House built

• When Union soldiers arrived at Retreat, they pillaged the house. In doing so they found a Bible hidden under the floorboards. Upon learning that the house belonged to a minister, the officer in charge reversed the order to burn the house. The bible disappeared but eighty years later a member of the Walker family received it in the mail. The package bore a Vermont postmark but no return address.
  

• 1939 – Restoration of the house began. The house still has its original floors and tabby walls which are twenty-two inches thick.
  

Land

• A mile long drive, bordered by live oaks, leads to the residence.
  

• Number of acres –

• Primary crop –

Owners

• Alphabetical list – John Gibbes Barnwell, Brinson, Stephen Bull, Delagall, Jean de la Gaye, Ford, Gautis, B. G. and Anne Pinckney (1970), Ponvert, Simons, Edward Tabb Walker
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves –

Buildings

Web Resources

Print Resources

• Initial references: 21, 33, 38, 49

Contact Information

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