Ashley Hall Plantation (S.C.)

found: Work cat.: NUCMC data from South Carolina Hist. Soc. for Bull family papers, 1737-ca. 1900(collection contains a sketch of Ashley Hall Plantation, showing the house as it looked in 1864)

found: South Carolina Plantations WWW, Apr. 25, 2006(Ashley Hall Plantation; West Ashley; Charleston County; location: Ashley River, West Ashley, Charleston County; three miles west of peninsular Charleston on SC 61; timeline: earliest known date of existence: 1676; granted to Stephen Bull; the first dwelling erected on the plantation was a small one-story house where Stephen Bull lived; 1704: plantation house was built by the Stephen Bull's oldest son; the mansion stood until 1865 when Col. William Izard Bull set fire to it to save the home of his ancestors from destruction by his enemies; owners: Banford, Stephen Bull (1676), William Bull (1707), William Izard Bull, Will Stephen Bull, Julius H. Jahnz (1915), William C. Kennerty (1918))