Camp Vere Plantation – Huger – Berkeley County

— Avenue of Oaks at Camp Vere Plantation © Brandon Coffey —

Basic Information

• Location – Eastern branch of the Cooper River, Huger, Berkeley County

  Located off SC 41 on Cainhoy Road

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – Campvere, Champs, Kampvee, Vert

• Current status – ?

Timeline

• 1785 – Earliest known date of existence

  Benjamin Simons III sold a piece of land from his Middleburg Plantation to John Bryan. This became Camp Vere Plantation (Cross).
  

• ? – House built

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – ?

Owners

• Alphabetical list – John Bryan (1785-?), Craig, DeSaussure, Laurens, Moore, Simons, Slocum, Smith
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

• Cooper River Historic District National Register nomination
  – Nomination form - PDF - submitted in 2002
  – Photographs, architectural overview
  

• Russell Cross, Middleburg Plantation and the Benjamin Simons Family: Click here

Print 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
  

• 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