The St. Stephen’s Parish Church was built in 1754. Three ships filled with eager adventurers from England and Barbados landed on the Carolina coast in 1670 at the junction of the two rivers that formed the Atlantic. They named these rivers after the Lord Proprietor who funded their venture, Lord Anthony Ashley Cooper. They named
Editor s note: This is the rest of Keith Gourdin s article titled "Springfield Plantation and its carving" from the Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2023, edition of The Berkeley Independent.
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Rev. William Porcher DuBose left Pineville during the Civil War. He became a leading profes sor, author, and administrator at Sewanee the University of The South. Pineville was devastated by the Civil War. Most of the homes were burned, most of the plantation owners left the area, and most of the freed slaves wandered away.
Eutaw Plantation lay between Eutawville and the Eutaw Springs Battlefield. William Mazyck Porcher was marched from Mexico Plantation to Eutaw Plantation then to Charleston by General Hartwell in 1865. This photo of Eutaw was taken in 1935 before it was flooded by the Santee-Cooper Project. The house was built in 1808 by William Sinkler and