Quinby Plantation House-Halidon Hill Plantation is a historic

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located near Huger,

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. The house was built about 1800, and is a -story, five bay, frame

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style plantation house. It sits on a low brick foundation and has a gable roof. In 1954, in order to save Quinby Plantation from destruction, the owners moved it approximately four miles to Halidon Hill Plantation. Halidon Hill Plantation is associated with the lowcountry rice culture and was historically part of

Middleburg Plantation Middleburg Plantation is a historic colonial-era plantation on the Cooper River near Huger, South Carolina. The plantation house, built in 1697 by the French Huguenot Benjamin Simons, is probably the oldest standing wood-frame building in Sou ...

. It was listed in the

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in 1985.

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