An early bridge over the Ashley River near this site, built ca. 1696-1700, was first owned by John Stevens, who soon afterward sold this tract to Michael Bacon. Bacon’s Bridge became a public bridge in 1722 and, during the American Revolution, Patriot and British and Loyalist commanders in the lowcountry considered it a strategic location. In Feb. 1780 Gen. William Moultrie built an earthwork nearby to defend the bridge and the approaches to Charleston. Gen. Nathanael Greene’s Southern Army, including Gen. Francis Marion’s militia, camped at Bacon’s Bridge from March to July 1782. In 1850 Rev. Robert I. Limehouse (1815-1881), later intendant of Summerville, built a house on the redoubt and named his plantation “The Hill.”