Basic Information

• Location – Western branch of the Cooper River, Moncks Corner, St John's Berkeley Parish, Berkeley County
  

  Located off US 52, about two and a half miles south of Moncks Corner
  

• Origin of name –

• Other names – Little Landing

• Current status – Privately owned
  

Timeline

• 1750 – Earliest known date of existence

  Original grant to Sir John Colleton

• 1767 – Sedgewick Lewis purchased 1,000 acres on September 15. The deed states the land was on the river front adjoining Exeter Plantation to the north (Neuffer, bk. 1, vol. 12, p. 22).
  

  The acreage, referred to as Little Landing, was originally part of the Fairlawn Barony. Sedgewick Lewis changed the name to Lewisfield (Stoney, p. 69).
  

• 1774 – Sarah Lewis, a daughter of Sedgewick Lewis, married Keating Simmons, the second son of Benjamin Simons of Middleburg Plantation. He gave them Lewisfield as a wedding gift (Neuffer, bk. 1, vol. 7, p. 8).
  

  Keating Simmons built a house on the property.
  

• 1781 – The plantation was the site of a surprise attack against the British during the Revolutionary War. Colonel Wade Hampton destroyed several boatloads of supplies and took 78 prisoners (Irving, p. 47-48).
  

• 1861-1865 – The landing at Lewisfield was constantly used by the Union gunboats. No harm came to the property (Irving, p. 49).
  

• 1903 – Charles Stevens purchased the plantation. He planted rice (Cross, p. 88).
  

  While under the ownership of Charles Stevens the plantation was called Chachan (not to be confused with the real Chachan Plantation) (Neuffer, bk. 1, vol. 12, p. 22).
  

• ? – Sometime after World War I the Stevens' sold the plantation to John F. Poppenheim (Irving, p. 50).
  

• 1973 – Senator Rembert C. Dennis owned the plantation (National Register).
  

Land

• Number of acres –

• Primary crop –

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Sir John Colleton; Senator Rembert C. Dennis; Sedgewick Lewis; John F. Poppenheim; Keating Simons; Charles Stevens
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves –

Buildings

Web Resources

• National Register of Historic Places
  – Nomination form - submitted in 1973 by Elias B. Bull - requires Adobe Reader
  – Photographs, architectural overview
  

Print Resources

• Initial references: 1

• William P. Baldwin, Jr., Plantations of the Low Country (Greensboro, NC: Legacy Publications, 1987).
  

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

• John B. Irving, A Day on Cooper River (Columbia, SC: R.L. Bryan Company, 1969).
  

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

• Samuel Gaillard Stoney, Plantations of the Carolina Low Country (New York, NY: Dover Publications, Inc., 1938).
  

Contact Information

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