Medway Plantation
Goose Creek, near Mount Holly, Berkeley County, South Carolina
Dating from 1686, when it was built for Jan Van Arrsens (whose ghost is sometimes seen smoking a pipe by the fireplace) and his wife, Sabrina de Vignon. While the original house on its 12,000-acres burned down in 1692, the core of the house seen today was rebuilt on the original foundations using the surviving walls which makes Medway the oldest house on record in South Carolina....
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It is thought to have been named by Sabrina's second husband, Governor Thomas Smith, 1st Landgrave of South Carolina, who grew up at Exeter on the Medway River in Devon, England. In 1930, it was purchased and restored by Gertrude Sanford Legendre - “the first American woman to be made a prisoner of war on the Western Front”- and her husband Sidney J. Legendre who was buried here after his premature death in 1948. Before Gertie died in 2000, she established the Medway Environmental Trust to manage the plantation as a nature preserve and in 2010 it was home to her daughter, Bokara.
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