6 miles west of Mt. Pleasant at 1254 Long Point Rd., Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. County/parish: Charleston.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places April 13, 1973. NRIS 100007048.
Also known as:
The Charles Pinckney National Historic Site is a unit of the United States National Park Service, preserving a portion of Charles Pinckney's Snee Farm plantation and country retreat. The site is located at 1254 Long Point Road, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. Pinckney (1757-1824) was a member of a prominent political family in South Carolina. He fought in the American Revolutionary War, was held for a period as prisoner in the North, and returned to the state in 1783. Pinckney, a Founding Father of the United States, served as a delegate to the constitutional convention where he contributed to drafting the United States Constitution.
This Snee Farm site was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1973, and was designated a National Historic Site in 1988.
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