White Hall Plantation – Lake Moultrie – Berkeley County

Basic Information

• Location – Submerged under Lake Moultrie, St. John's Berkeley Parish, Berkeley County

  Plantation lands were originally located near present-day Pinopolis.
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – ?

• Current status – In 1939, work began on the Santee Cooper Hydroelectric and Navigation Project. This project displaced many families and communities, and many historic homes were lost as the area was flooded.
  

Timeline

• 1774 – Earliest known date of existence

• 1824 – House built by Thomas Porcher

• 1854 – A wing with a bow window and a piazza with square columns was added to the house by Dr. Charles Lucas.
  

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – ?

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Dixon; Gaillard; Heyward; Lawrence; Lucas; Thomas Porcher; Ravenel; Lewis Simons; Blake Leay White
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – 8

Buildings

• ?

References & Resources

1. White Hall Plantation, White and Porcher Families: Click here

2. 30-15 Plantation File, held by the South Carolina Historical Society
   

3. Margaret F. Kemp, Colleton County, South Carolina: A Pictorial History (Dallas, TX: Taylor Publishing Company, 1994)
   

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

5. John Beaufain Irving, A Day on Cooper River (1842) (Whitefish, MT: Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010)
   
   

6. Norman S. Walsh, Plantations, Pineland Villages, Pinopolis and Its People (Virginia Beach, VA: Donning Company Publishers, 2007)
    Order Plantations, Pineland Villages, Pinopolis and Its People
   

7. Waterman Report of 1939