Ashley Hall Plantation

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Ashley Hall Plantation
Ashley Hall (1803).jpg
Nearest city West Ashley, South Carolina
Area38 acres (15 ha)
Builtc. 1675 (1675), 1704
NRHP reference No. 75001691 [1]
Added to NRHPJune 5, 1975

Ashley Hall Plantation is a historic plantation complex located on the Ashley River near West Ashley, Charleston County, South Carolina. The plantation was established in the early 1670s by Stephen Bull. The property includes a small tabby-walled house (c. 1675) with a 20th-century second story addition, the ruins of the Georgian plantation house (1704) which was burned in 1865 to prevent its destruction by Union forces, a monument to the second Governor William Bull (c. 1791), two prehistoric Indian archaeological sites, and two 18th century well sites associated with the plantation. The tabby house is considered one of the oldest standing houses in the state. [2] [3]

Charles Fraser painted the monument at Ashley Hall to Lieutenant Governor Bull about 1800. Ashley Hall - Bull Monument.jpg
Charles Fraser painted the monument at Ashley Hall to Lieutenant Governor Bull about 1800.

In 1915, the 1000 acre property was bought by Julius Jahnz for the price of $30,000, (~$631,016 in 2022) one of the highest prices paid for a real estate sale in many years. [4] In the run up to World War I, some locals circulated a rumor that German-born Jahnz was shipping large amounts of concrete to his new property to erect a German fortress. In reality, the concrete was being used to construct a modern creamery on 400 acres of the property. Jahnz also undertook the clean-up of the grounds including the ruins of the Bull house and a monument erected to Bull's memory. [5]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. John W. Califf and Elias B. Bull (February 1975). "Ashley Hall Plantation" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved August 1, 2014.
  3. "Ashley Hall Plantation, Charleston County (Address Restricted)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved August 1, 2014.
  4. "Julius H. Jahnz Buys Bull Place". News & Courier. Charleston, South Carolina. March 18, 1915. p. 8.
  5. "A Model Estate of the Old Bull Place". News & Courier. Charleston, South Carolina. February 17, 1917. p. 10.