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Eldorado Plantation

Eldorado Plantation was the home of Thomas Pinckney and his second wife Frances Motte Middleton, and was built in about 1797 in Charleston County, South Carolina. After Pinckney returned from Europe, where he had been serving as the United States minister to England and Spain, he bought a plantation on the Santee River. His eldest son took up residence at his wife Frances's family home, Fairfield Plantation on the Santee River.

Pinckney named his new plantation Eldorado; the name came from the golden buttercups that bloomed on the property. Pinckney used a Spanish name in memory of his time as the minister to Spain. Pinckney and his mother-in-law, Rebecca Brewton Motte, built the plantation house and developed the plantation for rice culture. She lived with him and her daughter until her death in 1815.

The house stood on the property until it burned on May 10, 1897. It was owned at the time by descendant Capt. Thomas Pinckney and occupied by his nephew, Hamilton Seabrook.

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Eldorado Plantation Wikipedia