Marilynn's Blog

Just outside of Charleston in Huger SC hides the most glorious rice plantation called the Middleburg Plantation of Huger dating back to the French-Huguenots.In 1693, a 100 acre tract of land and swamp known to the local naive American tribes as Pimlica Maptica was marked for warrant to a young orphaned French Huguenot emigre from the Bay of Biscay named Benjamin Simons. He about clearing the land for the three primary plantation enterprises of 17th C. Carolina: cutting timber for export, making pine
tar and turpentine for naval stores, and raising beef cattle for export to the sugar planters of the Caribbean.

A letter still in the possession of his descendants announces the date of completion of the main house in 1697, shortly after he had finally received his written warrant for the land having faithfully improved the lands and paid his quitrents. The first land grant was issued in 1704.

Looking for the right owner... someone interested in owning an historic property with 326 acres. Middleburg has entered its fourth century still recognizable to its original builder, and thanks to a conservation easement granted to the Lowcountry Open Land Trust, it will remain so for
generations to come.

Contact Marilynn 843.478-6287 if you have an interest in this property.