Liberty Hall Plantation
Inscription
(Front) This inland rice plantation has its origins in a 1683 grant. In 1726 Nathaniel Moore and his wife sold a 900-acre parcel to Isaac Mazyck (d. 1736). Mazyck’s son Benjamin (d. 1800), a rice planter, cattleman, and merchant, consolidated several nearby plantations and lived here until his death, when his son Stephen (1787-1832) inherited the plantation.
Stephen’s widow Mary sold it to Dr. Charles L. Desel in 1834. (Reverse) Dr. Charles Lewis Desel (1795-1855), a planter and physician, owned this plantation for more than twenty years. His friend Rev. John Bachman (1790-1874), a Lutheran minister and naturalist, brought artist and naturalist John James Audubon (1785-1851) here several times to hunt and observe birds and wildlife.
Liberty Hall declined after the Civil War, and was leased as a hunting preserve from 1912 to 1943. Erected by the City of Goose Creek, 2007
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