Oak Allee - Boone Hall Plantation House and Historic Landscape - Mount Pleasant, SC
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YoSam.
N 32° 51.325 W 079° 49.425
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This is a huge historic district, and the driveway on with oak tree borders is a contributing site.
Waymark Code: WMY2XZ
Location: South Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 04/10/2018
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County of site: Charleston County
Location of site: Oak Ave., N. of State Rd S-10-97 (Long Point Rd.), ½ mile W. of US-17, Mount Pleasant
Built: 1850
Architect: William Harmon Beers
Contractor: Cambridge M. Trott
"The Slave Street, Smoke house, and Allée, Boone Hall Plantation, are located on
Boone Hall Plantation in rural Charleston County, South Carolina. The plantation
developed during the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries under various
owners; the nominated elements are those that retain integrity from the early and
middle nineteenth century when the plantation was owned by the Boone and Horlbeck
families. Various other buildings and structures on the plantation which are of
later construction, or which are so altered as to have lost historic integrity, are
not included in the nominated acreage.
"The land which became Boone Hall Plantation was granted to Major John Boone at the
end of the seventeenth century. The oldest surviving building on the plantation
appears to be the smokehouse, which dates from ca. 1750. The nine surviving slave
houses appear to date from ca. 1790-1810. The allée is believed to have been planted
in 1843.
"1. Allée. A straight avenue approximately three-quarters of a mile long, leading from
the southwest entrance of the plantation grounds towards the site of the original house
to the northeast. The allée is defined by regularly-spaced live oak trees with mossdraped
branches intertwining over the avenue. The allée is reported to have been laid
out and planted in 1843. One brick grave vault without a headstone is located adjacent
to the southeast line of trees. Several members of the Boone family are suggested as
the occupants of this vault.
"Landscape Architecture: The oak allée at Boone Hall Plantation is an exceptional
specimen of the allées that were developed at many southeastern plantations in the
early and middle nineteenth century. The allée was designed as a formal entrance and
approach to the plantation. The Boone Hall allée, a rhythmic progression of moss-laden
oak trees whose branches intertwine to shelter the avenue, is a well-preserved and
beautifully developed alle'e, and effectively conveys the atmosphere of an antebellum
plantation." ~ NRHP Nomination Form