Basic Information

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

  Located off Old Highway 52 on North Mulberry Road
  

• Origin of name – Was probably named for the Mulberry tree that marked the boundary of the original 12,000 acres granted to Sir Peter Colleton
  

• Other names – Polly, Mulberry Castle, Salt Point, South Mulberry
  

• Current status – Privately owned

Timeline

• 1679 – Earliest known date of existence

  Sir Peter Colleton was granted 4,423 acres that adjoined his Fairlawn Barony
  

• 1694 – Sir John Colleton inherited all of his father's (Sir Peter) property in the Carolinas.
  

• 1708 – Sir John Colleton conveyed to Thomas Broughton 4,423 acres of the Fairlawn Barony (probably the same acreage that was granted to Sir Peter in 1679). Thomas Broughton named the property Mulberry.
  

• 1714 – House built
  

  Thomas Broughton built the house in the Jacobean baroque style and called it Mulberry Castle. When Broughton died he left Mulberry Castle to his wife and his son, Nathaniel Broughton.
  

• 1715 – During the Yemassee War, a number of people took refuge at Mulberry.
  

• 1742 – Honorable John Colleton (son of Sir John) conveyed 211 acres of the Fairlawn Barony to Nathaniel Broughton.
  

Land

• Number of acres – 4,423 in 1708; 4,634 in 1742

• Primary crop – Rice

• The grounds around the house were landscaped for Mr. and Mrs. Chapman by Loutrel W. Briggs.
  

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Frances Atkins, Barker, Fannie (Mrs. Marion P.) Brawley (1980), Nathaniel Broughton, Thomas Broughton (1708), Clarence E. Chapman, Chestnut, Childs, Sir John Colleton (1694), Sir Peter Colleton (1679), Dallett, Daniel, Milliken, Walker
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves –

Buildings

• 1714 plantation house (restored after 1915 for Clarence E. Chapman)
  

Web Resources

• Mulberry Plantation

• National Register of Historic Places
  – Nomination form - submitted in 1966 by James Dillon - requires Adobe Reader
  – Photographs, architectural overview
  

Print Resources

• Initial references: 1, 36, 44

• 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).
  

Contact Information

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