“My Heart Is Still in My Old House”: Archaeological Investigation at Hartstene’s Chinquapin Hill Plantation (38BU1768) Beaufort County, South Carolina

Summary

Brockington and Associates, Inc., conducted Phase III archaeological data recovery

excavations at 38BU1768 in July and August 2003. Archaeological site 38BU1768 is located in

the Palmetto Bluff Phase I Development Tract, Beaufort County, South Carolina. These

investigations were conducted under the Treatment Plan approved by South Carolina Department

of Archives and History on October 23, 2002, and in partial agreement of the stipulations of the

Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) among the State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO), the

South Carolina Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management (OCRM), and Palmetto

Bluff, LLC.

Site 38BU1768 contains the remains of the Hartstene settlement of Chinquapin Hill

plantation along the May River. Poplin (2002) conducted a systematic survey of 38BU1768

during a Phase I survey of the Palmetto Bluff Phase I Development Tract. The site was

recommended eligible for the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) following subsequent

testing of the site by Poplin (2002). A preservation area was defined in the northeastern portion

of the site, which contained a dense concentration of artifacts and cultural deposits considered

potentially useful for answering research questions regarding the past lifeways at Chinquapin

Hill plantation. The current data recovery excavations were focused within the preservation area

of 38BU1768.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Beaufort County, SC

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Contact(s): Jonathan Leader; Palmetto Bluff, LLC

Contributor(s): Alex Sweeney; Carolyn Rock; Charles Philips Jr.; Megan Brady; Alana Lynch; Dea Mozingo

Principal Investigator(s): Jeffrey Gardner

Prepared By(s): Brockington and Associates

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