Middleton's Plantation – Edisto Island – Charleston County

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Basic Information

• Location – Store Creek, Edisto Island, St. John's Colleton Parish, Charleston County

  Located about three miles west of SC 174
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – Chisolm's, The Launch

• Current status – Privately owned

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Timeline

• 1795 – Earliest known date of existence

• Circa 1800 – Susan Chisholm inherited the plantation from her father Dr. Robert Trail Chisolm (1, p. 3).
  

  Susan married Oliver Hering Middleton, son of Governor Henry Middleton of Middleton Place Plantation (1, p. 3).
  

• Circa 1830 – The Middletons had a house built (1, p. 3).
  

• 2010 – Mrs. John H. Boineau owned the plantation. Her husband owns Summit Plantation (3)
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Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – Sea island cotton

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Mrs. John H. Boineau (2010), Dr. Robert Trail Chisolm (1815), Caroline and Alfred Clarkson, Cotton, Oliver Hering and Susan Chisolm Middleton, Dr. Jenkins Pope (1902), Dr. William M. Pope (1970)
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• Two-story wooden house (1, p. 2)
  

References & Resources

1. National Register of Historic Places
   – Nomination form - PDF - submitted in 1970
   – Photographs, architectural overview
   

2. Catherine Campant Messner, South Carolina's Low Country: A Past Preserved (Orangeburg, SC: Sandlapper Publishing Company, 1988)
    Order South Carolina's Low Country: A Past Preserved

3. Information contributed by Brandon Coffey