Built 1801 Opened 1801 Architectural style Federal architecture Nearest city Frog | NRHP Reference # 75001687 Area 9 ha Added to NRHP 28 August 1975 | |
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Coffin point road avenue of oaks one half mile long leading to the coffin point plantation
Coffin Point Plantation, is a historic plantation house located in the Frogmore area of Beaufort County, South Carolina, USA, was once a prosperous Sea Island plantation. It is estimated that the home was built around 1801, and like many early 19th century homes in the area, features a tabby foundation. One of the homes more striking features is the one-half mile avenue of oaks that leads to the home. The first resident of the home, Ebenezer Coffin, was born in Boston in 1763, eventually moved to South Carolina and then settled at Coffin Point.
James Donald Cameron, a Republican U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania and former Secretary of War bought the plantation house in the early 1890s. Henry Adams described his visits to the Camerons at the plantation in his book The Education of Henry Adams.
The plantation was placed in the National Historic Register on August 28, 1975.