Basic Information

• Location – Eastern branch of the Cooper River, Huger, St Thomas and St Denis Parish, Berkeley County
  

  Located off Cainhoy Road on Middleburg Lane
  

• Origin of name – Named after the city of Middleburg, Zeeland, Netherlands where the builder, Benjamin Simons, spent a portion of his youth.
  

• Other names –

• Current status – Privately owned

Timeline

• 1693 – Earliest known date of existence

• 1698 – House built by Benjamin Simons

• 1981 – Jane and Max Hill purchased the property. They proceeded to restore as much of the property and buildings as possible.
  

• 2007 – The property and house are currently being sold.
  

  Click here to read an article concerning the sale.
  

Land

• Number of acres – 326 in 2007

• Primary crop – Rice

• The lands are slowly being returned to their pre-1926 appearance. All 326 acres of the plantation have been granted to the Lowcountry Open Land Trust.
  

Owners

• Alphabetical list – John Coming Ball (1872); Bryan; Catherine Chicken; Coming; Edward Von S. Dingle; Marie Guerin Ball Dingle; Dupre; John, Charles, and James Gibbs; Jane and Max Hill; Lydis Lucas; Benjamin and Martha Esther DuPre Simons (1693)
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves –

Buildings

• A complete structural restoration of the house has been accomplished.
  

• The kitchen had been restored but was subsequently destroyed.It is now being restored again.
  

• Short term stabilization of the surviving outbuildings is underway, and long-term plans for restoration of the stable, servants' quarters, toll office, threshing yard, and reserve ponds are ongoing.
  

• Other buildings found on the plantation are the commissary, carriage house, slave cabins, and rice mill.
  

Web Resources

• Middleburg Plantaion

• National Register of Historic Places
  – Nomination form - submitted in 1976 by James Dillon - requires Adobe Reader
  – Photographs, architectural overview
  

• Benjamin Simons Family

Print Resources

• Initial references: 1, 2, 4, 6, 19, 29

Contact Information

• Telephone:

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