Middleton's Plantation, also known as Chisolm's Plantation and The Launch, is a historic

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located near

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. It was built about 1830, and is a two-story wooden house, with one-room wings. It sits on a raised

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d brick basement. It features a small

Tuscan order The Tuscan order (Latin ''Ordo Tuscanicus'' or ''Ordo Tuscanus'', with the meaning of Etruscan order) is one of the two classical orders developed by the Romans, the other being the composite order. It is influenced by the Doric order, but wit ...

colonnaded porch on the land side facade and a recessed, full width, Tuscan order colonnaded porch on the water side. It was the home of Oliver Hering Middleton, son of Governor

Henry Middleton Henry Middleton (1717 – June 13, 1784) was an American politician and planter from South Carolina. A member of the colonial legislature, during the American Revolution he attended the First Continental Congress and served as that body's presi ...

Middleton Place Middleton Place is a Plantation complexes in the Southern United States, plantation in Dorchester County, South Carolina, Dorchester County, along the banks of the Ashley River West Ashley, west of the Ashley and about northwest of downtown Cha ...

. It was listed on the

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in 1971.

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Plantation houses in South Carolina Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina Houses completed in 1830 Houses in Charleston County, South Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Charleston County, South Carolina 1830 establishments in South Carolina {{CharlestonCountySC-NRHP-stub