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City Directories and History: PARKER-DRAYTON HOUSE
Constructed circa 1806; altered 1820s
“Isaac Parker, a planter and brickyard owner, built this substantial Neoclassical villa in 1806. When it was sold in 1820 to Col. William Drayton, the new owner extended the building to the east and west and probably added the large bowed front piazzas. Drayton moved his family to Philadelphia in 1837, and Charles Manigault, son of the architect Gabriel Manigault, purchased the house. Manigault filled the house with art collected in Europe as well as family heirlooms. His son Louis Manigault became a distinguished scientist and professor at the College of Charleston. Before the filing of the western edge of the peninsula, the windows of the house looked out over the marshes to the Ashley River.”
Information from: The Buildings of Charleston – J.H. Poston for the Historic Charleston Foundation, 1997
In that year, Charles Manigault bought the three-hundred-acre Cowrie Plantation (Beaufort area) and fifty slaves for forty thousand dollars. Cowrie Plantation had been developed during the 1820s by the Potter family of Charleston, Savannah, and Princeton, New Jersey. In addition to the slaves and 220 acres of developed rice fields. Cowrie contained a large water-powered rice-pounding mill which was widely used by planters on the Georgia and South Carolina sides of the river.
Information from: A History of Beaufort County, Vol. I, Rowland, Moore and G.C. Rogers, Jr. – Un. of S.C. Press, 1996
Other sources: Charleston Tax Payers of Charleston, SC in 1860-61, Dwelling Houses of Charleston by Alice R.H. Smith – 1917, Charleston 1861 Census Schedule, and a 1872 Bird’s Eye View of Charleston, S.C. The Hist. Charleston Foundation may also have additional data at: Past Perfect
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