Crowfield Golf and Country Club


  • Address: 300 Hamlet Cir
  • Vicinity: N of I-26
  • Type: Historic District
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Historic District

The first we arrived at was Crow-field, Mr Wm Middleton's seat where we spent a most agreeable week. The house stands a mile from, but insight of the road, and makes a very hansoume appearance; as you draw nearer new beauties discover themselves, first The fruitful Vine mantling up the wall loading with delicious Clusters; next a spacious bason in the midst of a large green presents itself as you enter the gate that leads to the house, which is neatly finished; the rooms well contrived and elegantly furnished. From the back door is a spacious walk a thousand feet long; each side of which nearest the house is a grass plat ennamiled in a Sepertine manner with flowers. Next to that on the right hand is what immediately struck my rural taste, a thicket of young tall live oaks where a variety of Airry Chorristers pour forth their melody; and my darling, The mockingbird, joined in The artless Concert and inchanted me with his harmony. Opposite on the left hand is a large square boleing green sunk a little below The level of the rest of the garden with a walk quite round composed of a double row of fine large flowering Laurel and Catulpas which form both shade and beauty. My letter will be of unreasonable length if I don't Passover The mounts, Wilderness, etc , and come to The bottom of this charming spott where is a large fishpond with a mount rising out of the middle - the top of which is level with the dwelling house and upon it is a roman temple. On each side of this are other large fish ponds properly disposed which form a fine prospect of water from the house. Beyond this are the smiling fields dressed in Vivid green. Here Ceres and Pomona joyn hand in hand to crown the hospitable board. Eliza Lucas Pinckney

Crowfield Golf and Country Club is a semi-private, 18-hole golf course in Goose Creek, South Carolina that opened in 1989. Between the 14th and 17th fairways, are the ruins of William Middleton's 23-acre garden were created at Crowfield Plantation. - AsNotedIn


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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1701/00/00 Crowfield Plantation is granted to John Berringer.
1721/00/00 Arthur Middleton, Esquire Owner John Gibbes (1696-1764), a member of the Royal Assembly, sells Crowfield Plantation to Arthur Middleton (1681-1737), also a member of the Royal Assembly.
1729/00/00 William Middleton Home William Middleton receives Crowfield and other estates in Carolina and ultimately a large property there and all his father's lands in England (which he visited in 1739.)
1730/00/00 William Middleton Home Crowfield Hall, a large two-story brick house, is built for William Middleton. Landscape includes extensive ponds and canals in the formal English-style.
1743/05/00 Eliza Lucas Pinckney Visitor After a visit to Crowfield, Eliza Lucas, describes the garden in a letter to a London friend. She writes of the plantings, the perspectives and the "large fish ponds properly disposed which form a fine prospect of water from the house."
1750/00/00 William Middleton Home William Middleton abandons Crowfield Plantation leaving neither caretaker nor watchman.
1776/00/00 Rawlins Lowndes Home Mr Lowndes buys Crowfield Plantation for 2,000 pounds.
1784/00/00 John Middleton II Owner Rawlins Lowndes sells Crowfield Plantation to John Middleton. Mr Middleton will die soon after the purchase, so the plantation will pass to his only child, John Izard Middleton.
1886/08/31 Crowfield Hall is virtually destroyed by the Great Earthquake of 1886 (partial walls remain). 1886 Charleston Earthquake

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Particulars for Crowfield Golf and Country Club:
Landscape Architecture Garden
Sight Category Historic District
Area of Significance Landscape Architecture
Disposition Ruin




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