Basic Information

• Location – Ashley River, West Ashley, St. Andrew's Parish, Charleston County

  Original plantation lands were located off Highway 61.
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – Skieveling (Trinkley and Hacker, p. 25)
  

• Current status – ?

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – Thomas Butler received 313 acres on the Ashley River (Kennerty, p. 12).
  

• 1746 – Thomas Butler died. He left his land to his sons who both died without children. Elizabeth Butler, Thomas Butler's widow, somehow acquired the property (Kennerty, p. 13).
  

• 1793 – Ralph Izard purchased the property. He resided on the plantation and referred to it as Schieveling. It was probably Izard who began to plant the avenue of oaks that could still be seen as of 1983 (Kennerty, p. 13). It is also believed Izard developed a grand garden (Trinkley and Hacker, p. 25).
  

  Sometime during Ralph Izard's ownership the house on the property was destroyed by fire.
  

• ? – Thomas Middleton owned the property. From him it went to Dr. Charles Drayton to Joseph F. Bee and then to Henry A. Middleton, Esq. (Kennerty, p. 13).
  

• 1960s – M.R. Hinkle purchased the property. They built a house and proceeded to restore some of the old gardens (Kennerty, p. 12).
  

Land

• Number of acres – 1,056 in 1826

• Primary crop – ?

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Ball; Joseph F. Bee; Elizabeth Butler; Thomas Butler; Charles Drayton; M.R. Hinkle; Ralph Izard; Henry F. Middleton; Thomas Middleton
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

• A Context For the Study of Lowcountry Gardens - PDF - Michael Trinkley and Debi Hacker, 2007, for the Chicora Foundation.
  

Print Resources

• Rosina Sottile Kennerty, Plantations on the South Side of Ashley River (Charleston, SC: Nelson Printing Corporation, 1983).
  

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