Steepbrook Plantation

Steepbrook Plantation was established in 1701 when Lewis Lansac received a grant of 500 acres near Goose Creek from the Lords Proprietors. In 1757, the original grant, along with an additional 1,000 acres that had belonged to the Wilson and Godin families, was acquired by rice planter and legislator Peter Manigault, who named the plantation for a stream that ran through his rice fields to Goose Creek. Manigault’s two-story house stood on a nearby ridge on the bank of Goose Creek. A longtime member of the Commons House of Assembly, he served as Speaker of the House from 1765 to 1772 and was, at his death, the wealthiest man in North America. His son Gabriel, also a planter and legislator, became best known as an amateur architect. In 1833, W.J. Sineath acquired the 633-acre core of the plantation and renamed it “The Oaks.”

Hanahan, South Carolina · United States