Hampton Plantation
Inscription
(Front) Hampton Plantation, 2 mi. NW, was established by 1730 and was one of the earliest rice plantations on the Santee River, in an area settled by Huguenots and often called "French Santee." The house, built in the 1730s for Elias Horry, later passed to his granddaughter Harriott Horry, who married Frederick Rutledge in 1797.
The plantation remained in the Rutledge family until 1971. (Reverse) One of Hampton's best-known owners was Archibald Rutledge (1882-1973), educator, man of letters, and first poet laureate of S.C. He wrote of life there in Home By The River (1941), calling it "the mother plantation of this old plantation country.
" Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1970, it has been Hampton Plantation State Park since the state acquired it in 1971. Erected by the St. James-Santee Parish Historical Society, 2001
Location
Sources
More markers in Charleston
Battle of Lenud’s Ferry
Here, on May 6, 1780, Col. A. M. White was routed by Tarleton with the loss of 2 officers and 36 men killed and wounded and 7 officers...
Mepkin Plantation
Home of Henry Laurens, born in Charleston in 1724, died at Mepkin in 1792.
Biggin Church Ruins*
Moncks Corner, SC
(Front) These ruins are all that remains of Biggin Church, built soon after the American Revolution as the parish church of St. John’s...
Quenby Bridge
Huger, SC
At this bridge, on July 17, 1781, British forces under Col. Coates, who was retreating from Moncks Corner, encountered pursuing Americans...
Pompion Hill Chapel
Huger, SC
One quarter mile north, the first Church of England edifice outside Charleston was erected of cypress in 1703, largely through the...