Boone Hall Plantation & Gardens, Mount Pleasant, SC

Manor House, Boone Hall Plantation, Mount Pleasant, NC

First established as a rice plantation; later converted to cotton, Boone Hall Plantation traces its history to a 1681 land grant to Major John Boone. The plantation features nine original slave cabins, which housed the plantation’s house servants and skilled craftsmen prior to the Civil War, as well as sharecroppers well into the 20th century. This cluster of cabins, known as Slave Street, is one of the few remaining intact in the Southeast and the only brick slave street in the U.S. It has been suggested that the proximity of the slave quarters along the road to The Big House and the expensive brick construction of the slave cabins indicates that Captain Thomas Boone was displaying his wealth and status to other planters as they rode up to the main house. The current manor house itself dates only back to 1936. On the grounds today, besides the house and slave cabins, one can tour the smoke house dating back to 1790, the Cotton Gin house (1853) and several flowering gardens, as well as the historic “Avenue of Oaks,” a mile long drive up to the entrance of the front house gates with live oaks on either side created in 1843.

Boone Hall and its grounds were prominently featured in the TV mini-series “North & South” Civil War epic by John Jakes, and Alex Haley’s “Queen,” among others.

Slave Quarters, Boone Hall Plantation, Mount Pleasant, NC

Boone Hall Plantation
1235 Long Point Rd. (off U.S. 17N)
Mount Pleasant, SC 29464
United States
843/884-4371
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