Brabant Plantation

Brabant Plantation is a South Carolina historical marker in Huger, Berkeley County.

Berkeley County · Clements Ferry Rd. (S.C. Sec. Rd. 8-98), 7.4 mi. SW of its intersection with S.C. Hwy. 41, S of Huger, Huger

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Residence of Rt. Rev. Robert Smith, who was born in Norfolk England, 1732. He was consecrated in Philadelphia in 1795 as the first Episcopal bishop of South Carolina. He died in 1801 and was buried in St. Philip's Churchyard, Charleston, S.C. On this plantation, on January 1782, an engagement took place between Americans under Col. Richard Richardson and British under Maj. Coffin.

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Brabant Plantation

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