Eldorado Plantation

Eldorado Plantation was the home of Thomas Pinckney and was built in about 1797 in Charleston County, South Carolina.[1] After Pinckney returned from Europe, where he had been serving as the United States minister to England and Spain, he bought a plantation for himself, and his eldest son took up residence at the family's traditional home, Fairfield Plantation on the Santee River. Pinckney named his new plantation Eldorado; the name came from the golden buttercups were bloomed on the property. Pinckney used a Spanish name in memory of his time as the minister to Spain. Pinckney and his mother-in-law, Rebecca Brewton Motte, built the plantation house which then stood on the property until 1897. The house burned on May 10, 1897, when it was owned by Capt. Thomas Pinckney and occupied by his nephew, Hamilton Seabrook.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Stoney, Samuel Gaillard. Plantations of the Carolina Lowcountry. p. 73.
  2. ↑ "Gen Thomas Pinckney's Home". Charleston News & Courier (Charleston, South Carolina). May 13, 1897. p. 8. Retrieved October 4, 2014.


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