Chantilly Plantation was purchased in 1832 at public outcry by Dr. Thomas Burge Taylor of Columbia, SC, as a wedding gift for his bride, Harriott Pinkney Raoul, after its original owner, John Ashurst, had moved further west. Harriott, a French woman, chose the name Chantilly after Chantilly, France, and in the 1830s she was responsible for enlarging the home and landscaping the grounds. Chantilly supplied many goods to other area plantations. Dr. and Mrs. Taylor had no children, so Chantilly passed to his sister's children, the Charles, who lived at Rose Hill. Chantilly has descended to Dr. Taylor's heirs for eight generations.