The Oaks

The Oaks was an inland rice plantation established here by Edward Middleton, who died in 1685, on a 1678 grant from the Lords Proprietors. A planter who came to S.C. from Barbados, Middleton received 1,630 acres on Yeaman’s Creek, later renamed Goose Creek, and served in several colonial offices, including as a member of the Grand Council. The Oaks passed to Middleton’s son Arthur, who lived from 1681 to 1737, also on the Council and later President of the first Royal Council. Arthur Middleton’s son Henry, who lived from 1717 to 1784, served in the Continental Congress in 1774-75 and was briefly its President, then later served in the Provincial Congress and first General Assembly of S.C. The original house here burned in 1840, long after the Middletons sold the property. The present house was built in 1892 for Maine businessman Edwin Parsons and renovated in 1930 by New York banker Charles Sabin. It has been The Oaks Plantation Golf and Country Club since 1964.

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