St. John’s Parish Church (ruins), located east of present-day Moncks Corner, was authorized in 1706 but had to wait until 1708 for its boundaries to be defined from the northern
On May 1, 1800, 14 planters gathered at Woodboo Plantation between Moncks Corner and Pineville to organize the St. John’s Hunting Club: •George Porcher of Cedar Springs (provided the meal) •Gen. William A. Moultrie of Northhampton •Stephen Mazyck of Woodboo •Col. John Christian Senf, chief engineer of the Santee Canal •George B. Artrope •Paul
Henry William Ravenel Photo from South Caroliniana Library Henry William Ravenel thrived as gentleman planter in Pineville before the Civil War destroyed his society and his livelihood. As a scientist, he survived the Civil War and Reconstruction and made a major contribution to botany in America. He was a fourth generation Huguenot born in 1814