Trimblestone Plantation – Beaufort County

Basic Information

• Location – Beaufort County

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – Topping

• Current status – ?

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

• ? – Joseph Huger owned the plantation (4, p. 98).
  

• ? – Elsie Huger Harrison acquired Trimblestone from her father Joseph Huger (4, p. 98).
  

• 1930 – Deed records show Elsie Huger Harrison transfered to Louisa S. Turnure 1,800 acres comprised of 780 acres of Topping Plantation and 800 acres of Trimblestone Plantation (3).
  

Land

• Number of acres – 1,800 acres in 1930 comprised of 780 acres of Topping Plantation and 800 acres of Trimblestone Plantation (3).
  

• Primary crop – ?

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Mrs. Elsie Huger Harrison (?-1930); Joseph Huger (?); Stoney (?); Louisa S. Turnure (1930-?)
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

References & Resources

1. 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
   

2. Robert E.H. Peeples, Tales of Antebellum Hilton Head Island Families (Self published, 1970)
    Order Tales of Antebellum Hilton Head Island Families

3. Information contributed by Cheryl Sullivan.
   

4. Robert B. Cuthbert and Stephen G. Hoffius, editors, Northern Money, Southern Land: The Lowcountry Plantation Sketches of Chlotilde R. Martin (Columbia, SC: The University of South Carolina Press, 2009)