Boone Hall

Boone Hall Plantation is one of America's oldest working plantations, continually growing crops for over 320 years. The antebellum era plantation is located in Mount Pleasant, Charleston County, South Carolina, U.S.A., and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.The plantation includes a large Colonial Revival plantation house (completed in 1936) that replaced the lost original house on the site, a number of slave cabins or cottages (which were occupied by sharecroppers well into the 20th century), several flower gardens, and the historic "Avenue of Oaks" an expanse of over a kilometer along the up to the house with southern live oaks on either side, originally planted in 1743.History17th and 18th centuriesThe earliest known reference to the site is in 1681, in a land grant of 470acre from owner Theophilus Patey, to his daughter Elizabeth and her new husband, Major John Boone as a wedding gift when the land became known as Boone Hall Plantation though it is unknown when a house was built on the site. John Boone was one of the first settlers of the South Carolina colony arriving in 1672. Boone and his wife were ancestors of Founding Fathers Edward Rutledge and John Rutledge. He was elected to the Grand Council during the 1680s but was removed twice because he illegally dealt in Indian slaves, associated with pirates, and concealed stolen goods. He went on to hold other local offices such as tax assessor and highway commissioner. When Boone died, he divided his estate between his wife and five children with his eldest son, Thomas, making Boone Hall his home.