Basic Information

• Location – Cooper River, North Charleston, St James Goose Creek Parish, Charleston County
  

• Origin of name –

• Other names – Happy Retreat

• Current status – Original property is part of the former Charleston Naval Base.
  

Timeline

• 1672 – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

• 1798 – James Lee purchased the plantation and shortly thereafter divided and sold off sections. Theodore Gaillard bought a southern piece of the plantation and called it Mons Repos.
  

Land

• Number of acres – 498 in 1672; 370 in 1693; 508 in 1758; 389 in 1796
  

• Primary crop –

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Samuel Brailsford, Charles Burnham, City of Charleston, Arthur and Mary Foster, Edmund Gibbon, Wilson Glover, Edward Hare, William Hawett, Thomas Hurt, James Lee, Edgerton Leigh, James McKenzie, Henry Middleton, Samuel Prioleau, Thomas Laughton Smith, James Strachan, Andrew Turnbull, United States Government, Richard Wright
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves –

Buildings

Web Resources

Print Resources

• Initial references: 4, 6

• Michael J. Heitzler, Goose Creek A Definitive History Volume One Planters, Politicians and Patriots (Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2005).
  

Contact Information

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