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The Paul Hamilton House, commonly referred to as the Brick House Ruins, is the ruin of a 1725 plantation house on Edisto Island, South Carolina, that burned in 1929.It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1970 for the unusual architecture of the surviving walls, which is partly based on French Huguenot architecture of the period.
The first group of Europeans who succeeded in settling Edisto Island were English people who settled the island in the late 1600s and early 1700s. Though it is unclear when the modern name was adopted, the island was called "Locke Island", after the English philosopher and Secretary to the Lords Proprietors of Carolina John Locke , during the ...
Edisto Island 97001159 Old House Plantation: Ridgeland 88001774 Orange Grove Plantation: Frogmore 78003191 Otranto Plantation: Hanahan 73001699 Peter's Point Plantation: Edisto Island 88001775 Pine Island Plantation Complex: Frogmore 86003213 Point of Pines Plantation Slave Cabin: Edisto Island 85003122 Quinby Plantation House-Halidon Hill ...
Spencer, Charles. Edisto Island, 1861 to 2006: Ruin, Recovery and Rebirth. Arcadia Publishing, 2008. Stone, H. David. Vital Rails: The Charleston & Savannah Railroad and the Civil War in Coastal South Carolina. Univ of South Carolina Press, 2008. Tomblin, Barbara. Bluejackets and Contrabands: African Americans and the Union Navy.
Prospect Hill is an historic plantation house on Edisto Island, South Carolina. The two-story Federal house is significant for its architecture and ties to the production of sea island cotton. [2] [3] Constructed about 1800 for Ephraim Baynard, it sits on a bluff overlooking the South Edisto River. In 1860, William Grimball Baynard owned ...
The Battle of The Pineberry Battery (or Engagements at Pineberry, Willtown, and White Point) was a series of minor engagements, fought April 29, 1862, in Charleston County, South Carolina, during the American Civil War. The engagements proceeded from an attack by the Union Navy on a battery on John Berkeley Grimball's plantation on Edisto ...
Paul Grimball House Ruins is a historic archaeological site located at Edisto Island, Charleston County, South Carolina. The stuccoed tabby house was built about 1682. In August 1686, the house was occupied, sacked, and possibly burned by the Spanish on a raid up the North Edisto River. The remains consist of a 12-foot (3.7 m) high corner ...
Alexander Bache U.S. Coast Survey Line is a historic geodetic survey line located at Edisto Island, Charleston County, South Carolina. This base line was surveyed by Alexander Dallas Bache and his assistants during January 1850 as part of their work with the United States Coast Survey. They buried granite blocks at each endpoint and then placed ...