Charles Pinckney of South Carolina, born in 1757 and dying in 1824, was one of the drafters and signers of the Constitution of the United States. As a member of the Articles of Confederation Congress, he actively worked for the calling of a convention to draft a constitution for the new United States, and he served as one of South Carolina’s four delegates to the 1787 convention in Philadelphia. He played an active role in the Constitutional Convention and in the ratification process that followed, then remained involved in state and national politics for the rest of his life as an ally and supporter of Thomas Jefferson. In public service he neglected his personal affairs and lost his fortune, including Snee Farm. Snee Farm was located in Christ Church Parish, an area of rice and indigo plantations in the heart of the South Carolina lowcountry, and the property belonged to the Pinckney family for more than a half-century from 1754 to 1817. The house standing on the site was not Charles Pinckney’s home, because his Snee Farm house disappeared sometime early in the first quarter of the 19th century; this building is instead a classic example of a 19th century lowcountry plantation house and is architecturally significant in its own right. In 1987, a group of South Carolinians formed The Friends of Historic Snee Farm to raise funds to purchase the 28-acre site as a lasting tribute to Pinckney, and by July 1988 they had raised more than two million dollars, bought the property, and turned it over to the National Park Service for preservation and interpretation.