Boone Hall Plantation was established in 1681 by a grant to Major John Boone and remained in the family for 130 years. Purchased by the Horlbeck family in 1817, the plantation produced primarily Sea Island cotton. A cotton gin, smokehouse, and nine slave cabins, all built of brick made there, survive from the antebellum period. The present main house at Boone Hall was built for Thomas A. Stone in 1936.