The Pineville Academy was incorporated by the State of South Carolina in 1805. It had the right to own real and personal property and to produce income not exceeding $5,000 a year. A provision allowed the academy to receive escheated (confiscated by the state) property in St. Stephen’s Parish. A controversy arose when Mrs. Elizabeth
Springfield Plantation house near Pineville was built in 1818 for Joseph Palmer. It survived the Civil War but was demolished in 1939 for the Santee-Cooper Project. The land is now beneath Lake Moultrie. During the War of American Independence, most of the plantation homes along the Santee River were sacked and burned by the British
The Ophir house was large and beautiful. Like all the houses of that period it was constructed of hand-sawn lumber. It had four stories, a large basement, and an attic. It now lies beneath Lake Moultrie. A family legend tells of a man traveling up the Santee River Road (now Hwy 45) by stage coach
In 1791 the United States of America took its place among nations of the world, George Washington toured South Carolina, and the men of Pineville sat down with Col. Hezekiah Maham, hero of the Battle of Fort Johnson, to establish the St. Stephen Jockey Club. After all, Southern planters needed sports of the turf as
The Santee Canal began at White Oak Bluff on the Santee River. Henry Mouzon, the original surveyor, had determined the river was normally 270 feet wide and 18-20 feet deep at this point. Col. John Christian Senf, the engineer, designed the canal to be 35 feet wide at the surface, 32 feet wide at the