Silk Hope Plantation – Huger – Berkeley County

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Basic Information

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

  Located off SC 402 on Silk Hope Drive

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – ?

• Current status – ?

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Timeline

• 1696 – Earliest known date of existence

• 1999 – Current house built (6)

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Land

• Number of acres – 1,000 in 1999 (6)

• Primary crop – ?

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Cherry, Heyward, Nathaniel Johnson, Manigault, Mr. and Mrs. Robert V. Royall
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

— Silk Hope Plantation Historical Marker © Gazie Nagle, 2011 —
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Buildings

• ?

References & Resources

1. 2002 Cooper River Historic District National Register nomination

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

3. SC Highway Historical Marker Guide - online database by the SC Department of Archives & History
   

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

5. Sankofa's Plantation Data Collection
   

6. Information contributed by Jason Lawson

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