Runnymede Plantation

Description

Three color slides of Runnymede Plantation. Located on the Ashley River between Magnolia and Middleton Plantations, it is believed to have been named because of the property's great oak and location along a river similar to the Runnymede in England. Two other houses on the property were destroyed (the first by fire and the second by the Union Army) but the house featured here was constructed sometime after the Civil War by Charles C. Pinckney. The house remained in the Pinckney family for over a century. The house burned down in 2002. (SCIWAY "South Carolina Plantations"; News & Courier, 3/14/1938.)