Belvidere Plantation – Charleston Neck – Charleston County

Basic Information

• Location – Cooper River, Charleston County

  Located on the Charleston peninsula near Magnolia Cemetery in the area known as "The Neck"
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – Shubrick, Belvedere, Governors House
  

• Current status – House no longer exists

Timeline

• 1712 – Earliest known date of existence when the General Assembly purchased the property and built a brick house for use by the governor. The property was known as Governors House (Belvidere Golf Links)
  

• Circa 1712 – Brick house built (Belvidere Golf Links)
  

• 1749 – Thomas Shubrick purchased the property (Belvidere Golf Links)
  

• 1796 – The house was lost to fire in March (Belvidere Golf Links)
  

• Circa 1800 – Shubrick built another house (Belvidere Golf Links)
  

• 1901 – Purchased by the Country Club of Charleston (Belvidere Golf Links)
  

  The organization developed a 9-hole golf course on property and refurbished the house as their clubhouse (Belvidere Golf Links).
  

• 1926 – Country Club of Charleston moved from Belvidere to McLeod Plantation on James Island
  

• ? – Standard Oil Company purchased the property and built an oil refinery. The house was left to untouched and deteriorated (Belvidere Golf Links)
  

• Sometime after 1941 – House was torn down (Belvidere Golf Links)
  

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – ?

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Charleston Country Club, Colleton, Glenn, Johnson, Manigault, Thomas Shubrick, Sinkler, Standard Oil Company
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• Two houses were built at Belvidere. Neither are still standing.
  

Web Resources

• Preservation Society of Charleston's Belvidere Golf Links: Click here

Print Resources

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

• 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)
  
  

• Samuel Gaillard Stoney, Plantations of the Carolina Low Country (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 1990)