White House Plantation – Cooper River – Berkeley County

Basic Information

• Location – Cooper River, St. James Goose Creek Parish, Berkeley County
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – Tranquil House

• Current status – ?

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• Prior to 1808 – William Johnson acquired White House Plantation (1).
  

• ? – House built

  There was a house on the plantation when William Johnson's family resided there (2, p. 75).
  

• Late 1800s – White House Plantation became part of Red Bank Plantation owned by John Frederick Poppenheim (2, p. 74).
  

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – ?

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

References & Resources

1. Information contributed by Joy Skipper Cornwell from Fergus(s)on DNA Project
   

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

3. Maxwell Clayton Orvin, Historic Berkeley County, South Carolina: 1671-1900 (Self published, 1973)
    Order Historic Berkeley County, South Carolina: 1671-1900