Medway Plantation

Location: Mount Holly, South Carolina off U.S. Route 52

Medway Plantation is located in the Mount Holly community which is between Goose Creek and Charleston South Carolina.  The plantation was added to the National Register of Historic places back in 1970.  The plantation house was built back in the later 1600's by a small group of settlers from Holland.  Medway was a active plantation during the winter and summer months.  Rice was the main focus during the summer months and brick making following during the winter months.  Medway today has been set up in a Environmental Trust by Gertrude Sanford Legendre which ensures the preservation of the plantation.   

Quinby Plantation

Location: Huger, South Carolina

Architectural Style: Federal

 Quinby plantation was added to the National Register of Historic places in 1985.  The plantation house was built in 1800 and follows the federal style house.  Halidon Hill Plantation serves as the home of the house when it was moved there in 1954 in order to preserve the plantation house.  The original foundation is the only part of the house that is still on the grounds of Quinby Plantation. The property mainly rice fields was apivotal aspect of the low-county rice culture.

 

Middleburg Plantation

Location: Huger, SC/ East Branch of the Cooper River

Architectural Style: Colonial

Middleburg Plantation house was first constructed in 1699 by Benjamin Simons, a French Huguenot.  The original wood-frame building is still standing to this day, which makes it the oldest wood-frame building in South Carolina. 

The plan of the house became what is known as a precusor for the typical Charleston single house, where each floor has three rooms.  The plantation home was register as a historical landmark back in 1970.  The property has been passed down for centuries and still remains in the hands of Simon's descendants.