Basic Information

• Location – Submerged under Lake Moultrie, St John's Berkeley Parish, Berkeley County
  

• Origin of name – Named after the Chapel of Ease built on the property as part of St John's Berkeley Episcopal Church
  

• Other names –

• Current status – In 1939, work began on the Santee Cooper Hydroelectric and Navigation Project. This project displaced many families and communities, and many historic homes were lost as the area was flooded.
  

Timeline

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• House built –

Land

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Owners

• Alphabetical list – William Brickell; Samuel Foxworth; Isaac Porcher III
  

Slaves

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Buildings

Web Resources

Print Resources

• Russell J. Cross, Historic Ramblin's Through Berkeley (Columbia, SC: R.L. Bryan Co., 1985).
  

• Claude Henry Neuffer (editor), Names in South Carolina, 1943-1983 (Columbia, SC: The State Printing Company).
  

• Norman Sinkler Walsh, MD, Plantations, Pineland Villages, Pinopolis and Its People (Virginia Beach, VA: Donning Company Publishers, 2006).
  

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