Hickory Hill Plantation – West Ashley – Charleston County

Basic Information

• Location – West Ashley, St. Andrews Parish, Charleston County

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – Hickory

• Current status – ?

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – Ester Butler was given 313 acres. This acreage was eventually divided among relatives (Kennerty, p. 11).
  

• 1801 – Part of the divided acreage was sold to John Splatt Cripps. The property was referred to as Hickory Hill (Kennerty, p. 11).
  

• 1825 – Anne Cripps sold Hickory Hill to Christian Hanckel. A deed records the sale of 280 acres.
  

• 1919 – The residence has disappeared but a burial site still existed on the property at this time (Kennerty, p. 12).
  

Land

• Number of acres – 280 in 1825

• Primary crop – ?

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Ester Butler; Anne Cripps; John Splatt Cripps; Christian Hanckel
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

• ?

Print Resources

• Rosina Sottile Kennerty, Plantations on the South Side of Ashley River (Charleston, SC: Nelson Printing Corporation, 1983).