Basic Information

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

  Plantation lands were originally located near present-day Pinopolis.
  

• Origin of name – ?

• 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

• 1774 – Earliest known date of existence

• 1824 – House built by Thomas Porcher

• 1854 – A wing with a bow window and a piazza with square columns was added to the house by Dr. Charles Lucas.
  

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – ?

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Dixon; Gaillard; Heyward; Lawrence; Lucas; Thomas Porcher; Ravenel; Lewis Simons; Blake Leay White
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – 8

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

• White Hall Plantation

Print Resources

• Initial references: See #1, 18

• 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).
  

• Norman Sinkler Walsh, MD, Plantations, Pineland Villages, Pinopolis and Its People (Virginia Beach, VA: Donning Company Publishers, 2006).
  

• Thomas T. Waterman, A survey of the early buildings in the region of the proposed Santee and Pinopolis reservoirs in South Carolina (US Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Historic American Buildings Survey, 1939).