Moss Grove Plantation – Cross – Berkeley County

— Moss Grove Plantation © Brandon Coffey, 2014 —
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Basic Information

• Location – Cross, Berkeley County

  Located on Ranger Drive at Country Pond Lane, most of the plantation's former acreage lies submerged under Lake Moultrie.

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – ?

• Current status – ?

Timeline

• 1678 – Earliest known date of existence (1, p. 33)
  

  Sir Peter Colleton received a land grant of 12,000 acres. The property became known as the Fairlawn Barony (1, p. 31).
  

• 1844 – John Cross bought a total of 500 acres from the Austin, Winningham, McCants families. He later purchased additional property from the Livingston and Droze families (1, p. 298).
  

• 1880 – House built

  Adam Cross, John's son, built a two-story clapboard house. There had been a pole house on the property thought to have been built prior to the American Revolution (1, p. 81 and 299).
  

• 1886 – House was damaged by the Great Earthquake of 1886 (1, p. 299).
  

• Moss Grove remained in the Cross family for seven generations (1, p. 299).
  

• 1985 – Mrs. Ethel Cross Langley owned Moss Grove (1, p. 299).
  

Land

• Number of acres – 500 in 1844 (1, p. 298)
  

• Primary crop – Cotton

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

References & Resources

1. J. Russell Cross, Historic Ramblin's through Berkeley (Columbia, SC: R.L. Bryan Company, 1985)
    Order Historic Ramblin's through Berkeley

2. Records held by the Berkeley County Historical Society

3. SC Highway Historical Marker Guide - online database by the SC Department of Archives & History