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Middleton Place Plantation

Item # CHS83Today'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 ma

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Middleton Place Plantation