Middleburg Plantation, plantation in Huger, South Carolina, United States
Middleburg Plantation is a wood and brick house listed on the National Register of Historic Places, located in Huger, South Carolina. The building has a hipped roof and two chimneys, and the grounds around it are lined with old oak trees that have stood there for centuries.
The house was built in 1697 by Benjamin Simons, a French Huguenot who had settled in South Carolina. It survived the American Revolution when British forces passed through the property without burning it down, which was not always the case for plantations in the area.
Benjamin Simons, a French Huguenot refugee, named the plantation after Middelburg, the capital of Zeeland on Walcheren Island, where he stayed before sailing to America. The house remained in the hands of his descendants when it was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1970.
The property is privately owned and not open for interior visits. The exterior and the oak-lined approach can be seen from the road, and local archives or historical societies hold records for those who want to learn more.
The house is likely the oldest standing wood-frame building in South Carolina, built in 1697 by Huguenot refugee Benjamin Simons. At its 1970 National Historic Landmark designation it was still owned by Simons' descendants. Two later outbuildings survive: a 19th-century carriage house with jigsawn woodwork and a brick commissary with a slave jail at its rear.
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