Boone Hall Plantation | |
Location | 1235 Long Point Rd Mount Pleasant, South Carolina |
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Coordinates | 32°51′27.21″N 79°49′19.37″W / 32.8575583°N 79.8220472°W |
Area | 738 acres (298.7 ha) |
Built | 1936 (reconstruction) 1681 (settled) |
Architect | William Harmon Beers |
Architectural style | Colonial Revival |
NRHP reference No. | 83002187[1] (original) 93001512[1] (increase) |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | July 14, 1983 |
Boundary increase | January 21, 1994 |
Boone Hall Plantation is a historic district located in Mount Pleasant, Charleston County, South Carolina, United States and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[1][2][3][4] The plantation is one of America's oldest plantations still in operation, as it has continually produced agricultural crops for over 320 years. The majority of this labor, as well as the construction of the buildings and its characteristic bricks, was performed by enslaved African Americans. For this reason, the site was named one of the African American Historic Places in South Carolina in 2009. The historic district includes a 1936 Colonial Revival-style dwelling, and multiple significant landscape features, including an allée of southern live oak trees, believed to have been planted in 1743.[5] The site is open for public tours.