Basic Information
- Location – Western branch of the Cooper River, Oakely, St. John's Berkeley Parish, Berkeley County
Located off Old Highway 52 on South Mulberry Road
- Origin of name – ?
- Other names – ?
- Current status – ?
Timeline
- 1809 – Earliest known date of existence when owned by Philip Broughton
- 1835 – House built by Dr. Stanford Barker
- Circa 1940 – F.A. Dallet was owner (5).
- Circa 1951 – M.E. Dodge Sr. owned the plantation. Under Dodge's ownership, South Mulberry was a working plantation raising beef cattle, operating a dairy and cultivating other agricultural products (5).
- Circa 1958 – Dodge sold the plantation (5).
- ? – Large additions and extensive remodeling took place while the house was serving as a hunting lodge.
- 1990 – Scenes from the movie Voodoo Dawn were filmed at South Mulberry Plantation (6).
Land
- Number of acres – Historically 2,600 acres; the plantation has recently (2012) been subdivided (5).
- Primary crop – Beef cattle, dairy and agricultural products under the ownership of M.E. Dodge Sr. (5).
Owners
- Alphabetical list – Dr. Stanford Barker (1835), Philip Broughton (1809), Thomas Broughton, Childs, F.A. Dallet (1940), M.E. Dodge Sr. (1951-1958), Tucker
Slaves
- Number of slaves – ?
Buildings
References & Resources
- Claude Henry Neuffer, editor, Names in South Carolina, Volume I through 30 (Columbia, SC: The State Printing Company)
Order Names in South Carolina, Volumes I-XII, 1954-1965
Order Names in South Carolina, Index XIII-XVIII
- 30-14 Plantation File, South Carolina Historical Society
– Online Catalog - John Beaufain Irving, A Day on Cooper River (1842)
(Whitefish, MT: Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010)
- J. Russell Cross, Historic Ramblin's through Berkeley
(Columbia, SC: R.L. Bryan Company, 1985)
Order Historic Ramblin's through Berkeley - Information contributed by M.E. Dodge, Jr.
- Information contributed by Brandon Coffey.
