Archeology

Archeology has played an important role in understanding Snee Farm and Charles Pinckney. Very few of Pinckney’s personal papers exist today because the bulk of them were destroyed by the 1861 Charleston fire. Archeology has shown that the Pinckney-era structures, dating from 1754 to 1817, that once stood in this part of Snee Farm were razed sometime in the early 19th century. The current theory is that one or more hurricanes damaged the farmhouse, kitchen, and other outbuildings. When William Matthews purchased Snee Farm in 1828, he is believed to have torn down the damaged buildings and built the present house on the same site as Pinckney’s. The wings of the house were added in the 1930s by the Ewing-Stone family. Today modern bricks outline the Pinckney kitchen and farmhouse dependencies.

Mount Pleasant, South Carolina · United States