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Charleston, SC : CHS83 Shelia's MIDDLETON PLACE PLANTATION

MIDDLETON PLACE PLANTATION Charleston, South Carolina The back reads, "Today's Middleton Place is all that remains of what was one a three-part residential complex, consisting of a main house and a dependency building, or flanker, on either side. The main house, which dates to the late 1730s is now in ruins, and was the home of John Williams. Mary, his daughter, in 1741 married Henry Middleton, a wealthy young planter. The house and surrounding 200 acres were part of her bridal dowry. Middleton began construction of the gardens, which took the work of 100 slaves laboring seasonally for ten years to complete. In 1755 he added the two-story north and south flanders. On February 22, 1865, a foraging party from the 56th New York Volunteers, part of General Sherman's army, looted and burned Middleton Place. The main house and north flanker were almost completely destroyed, their fragil walls leveled twenty years later in the Great Earthquake of 1886. The south flanker was less damaged and William Middleton was able to restore and enlarge it in the 1870s as the family residence. Open to the public since February, 1975, the Middleton Place House Museum displays a collection of family furniture, paintings, silver, porcelain and books that give meaning to the story of life at Middleton Place." Size: 9" Wide X 5 3/4" High X 1"Deep Product Code: CHS83 Issue Date: 03/27/2001 Series: Charleston Shelia’s Web Site Price: $23.95 Our Price: $20.95

CHS83 Shelia's MIDDLETON PLACE PLANTATION

MIDDLETON PLACE PLANTATION Charleston, South Carolina