Basic Information

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

  Plantation lands were originally located near present-day Bonneau
  

• Origin of name – Name is of Native American origin
  

• 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

• 1705 – Earliest known date of existence

  Land grant to Pierre de St Julien de Malacare

• 1716 – House built by Rene Louis Ravenel

• 1804 – Second house built by another Rene Ravenel

• 1852 – Western wing added by Doctor Henry Ravenel

Land

• Number of acres – 4,000

• Primary crop – Santee long cotton
  

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Pierre de St Julian de Malacare, Mazyck, Henry Le Noble, Dr. Henry Ravenel, Rene Louis Ravenel (1714), P. R. Porcher, R. D. Porcher, St Julien, Steward
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves –

Buildings

Web Resources

Print Resources

• Initial references: 1

• 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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