Middleton's Plantation

Historic house in South Carolina, United States

United States historic place


Middleton's Plantation
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

32°33′25″N 80°19′48″W / 32.55694°N 80.33000°W / 32.55694; -80.33000
Area	6.4 acres (2.6 ha)
Built	c. 1830 (1830)
NRHP reference No.	71000755^[1]
Added to NRHP	May 6, 1971

Middleton's Plantation, also known as Chisolm's Plantation and The Launch, is a historic plantation house located near Edisto Island, Charleston County, South Carolina. It was built about 1830, and is a two-story wooden house, with one-room wings. It sits on a raised arcaded brick basement. It features a small Tuscan order colonnaded porch on the land side facade and a recessed, full width, Tuscan order colonnaded porch on the water side. It was the home of Oliver Hering Middleton, son of Governor Henry Middleton of Middleton Place.^[2]^[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Norman McCorkle (November 1970). "Middleton's Plantation" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved 2014-06-01.
^ "Middleton's Plantation, Charleston County (off S.C. Hwy. 174, Edisto Island)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 2014-08-01.