Elm Grove Plantation

Description:

Black and white photograph of the ruins of Elm Grove Plantation. The photographer has focused on the brick fireplace in what was the drawing room. Notation on reverse reads, "Drawing room. Elmgrove. May 1928 (West Room)."

Elm Grove Plantation was situated along the Wando River (approximately 9 miles from the town of Mount Pleasant) where the Park West development and the East Cooper airport are located today. Originally made up of lands granted to early Wappetaw settlers, Solomon Legare, John White and John Severance, it was owned soley by the Legare family and comprised 1,739 acres by the mid-1800s. When it sold in 1860, it was operating as both a cotton and brickmaking plantation.

• Title: Elm Grove Plantation
• Photographer: Unattributed
• Date: May 1928

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• Collection: Photograph Collection
• Object Name: Plantations
• Object Id: MK 8418a

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