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Mount Pleasant: Boone Hall Plantation
Mount Pleasant: Boone Hall Plantation Boone Hall Plantation, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.

Mount Pleasant

South Carolina, United States
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Mount Pleasant, town, Charleston county, southeastern South Carolina, U.S., on the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway overlooking Charleston Harbor and linked to Charleston (west) by the Cooper River (John P. Grace) Bridge. Settled in the 1690s, the town originated around Jacob Motteā€™s plantation as a resort for island planters. Nearby Sullivanā€™s Island, site of Fort Moultrie (1809; now part of Fort Sumter National Monument) was the setting for Edgar Allan Poeā€™s story ā€œThe Gold Bug.ā€ The economy...

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