Magnolia Umbra Plantation – Charleston Neck – Charleston County

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Basic Information

• Location – Cooper River, Charleston Neck, Charleston County

  Original plantation lands were located in and around Magnolia Cemetery off Meeting Street (US 52).
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – ?

• Current status – The majority of the land was donated for Magnolia Cemetery.
  

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

  Mrs. Lindrey was the plantation's first owner (2, p. 7).
  

• 1790-1805 – A house was built on the property.
  

• 1849 – The Magnolia Cemetery Company began looking for land to create a rural cemetery. They decided on the site of Magnolia Umbra Plantation. Ninety-two acres were conveyed to the company, and noted architect, Edward C. Jones, began to construct the cemetery. The original plantation house was still on the property (1, p. 3).
  

• 1850 – On November 19 the cemetery was officially dedicated with a religious ceremony, music, and an address delivered by Charles Fraser, a Charleston miniaturist (1, p. 10).
  

• 1920s – A small portion of the original 92 acres was sold and developed (1, p. 10).
  

— Magnolia Umbra Plantation, Magnolia Cemetery © Gazie Nagle, 2014 —
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Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – ?

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• The plantation house is used as the office for Magnolia Cemetery (2, p. 7).
  

References & Resources

1. National Register of Historic Places
   – Nomination form - PDF - submitted in 1976
   – Photographs, architectural overview
   

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

Contact Information

• Magnolia Cemetery Trust
  70 Cunnington Avenue
  Charleston, SC 29405
  

  Telephone: 843-722-8638