— Quinby Plantation house after moved to Halidon Hill Plantation © Brandon Coffey —

Basic Information

• Location – Eastern branch of the Cooper River, Huger, St. John's Berkeley Parish, Berkeley County

  Located off SC 41 on Cainhoy Road

• Origin of name – William J. Ball changed the name to Halidon Hill in 1843
  

• Other names – Simonsville, Horts

• Current status – Privately owned

— Rear of Quinby Plantation house after moved to Halidon Hill © Brandon Coffey —

Timeline

• 1787 – Earliest known date of existence

  Benjamin Simons III died and his Middleburg Plantation was divided among his three daughters. Catherine Simons [Hort] inherited 768 acres which became known as Simonsville and Horts. (Cross).
  

• 1792 – House built

• ? – John Bryan owned the plantation (Cross).
  

  Bryan also owned nearby Camp Vere Plantation whose lands also had once been part of Middleburg Plantation.
  

• 1843 – The plantation was conveyed to William J. Ball (Cross).
  

• ? – John Coming Ball acquired Halidon Hill.
  

• 1872 – Ball foreclosed on a loan that Simons descendants had taken out using Middleburg Plantation as collateral. Ball had previously acquired Halidon Hill and Smoky Hill and merged all three back into one at this time. He called this merged property Middleburg Plantation (Cross).
  

• It appears sometime during ownership by the Ball family, the property of Middleburg Plantation was once again divided and Halidon Hill became a separate holding.
  

• 1954 – The Quinby house was moved four miles through the woods and down a narrow highway to its present site at Halidon Hall. It was renovated by Mr. and Mrs. Huguenin.
  

• ? – Richard and Verren Coen acquired Halidon Hill.
  

Land

• Number of acres – 768 acres in 1787; 1,960 in 1985

• Primary crop – Rice

Owners

• Chronological list – William and Catherine Simons Hort (1787-?); John Bryan; William J. Ball (1843-?); John Coming Ball (1872); Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Huguenin (1954-?); Richard and Verren Coen (2002)
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• The Quinby Plantation house was moved four miles through the woods and down a narrow highway to its present site at Halidon Hall in 1954. The house was renovated by Mr. and Mrs. Huguenin.
  

Web Resources

• National Register of Historic Places
  – Nomination form for Quinby Plantation house - PDF - submitted in 1985
  – Photographs, architectural overview
  

• National Register of Historic Places
  – Nomination form for Cooper River Historic District - PDF - submitted in 2002
  – Photographs, architectural overview
  

• Russell Cross, Middleburg Plantation and the Benjamin Simons Family: Click here

Print Resources

• 30-15 Plantation File, held by the South Carolina Historical Society

• 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
  

• Claude Henry Neuffer, editor, Names in South Carolina, Volume I through 30 (Columbia, SC: The State Printing Company)
   Order Names in South Carolina, Volumes I-XII, 1954-1965
   Order Names in South Carolina, Index XIII-XVIII
  

• 30-14 Plantation File, South Carolina Historical Society
  –  Online Catalog

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

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

• Sankofa's Plantation Data Collection
  

• Catherine Campant Messner, South Carolina's Low Country: A Past Preserved (Orangeburg, SC: Sandlapper Publishing Company, 1988)
   Order South Carolina's Low Country: A Past Preserved