5 Things You May Not Know About Mount Pleasant, South Carolina

By Mark A. Leon

1. Mount Pleasant was originally made up of five separate English villages – Greenwich Village, Hibben Ferry Tract, Mount Pleasant Plantation, Hilliardsville, and Lucasville – that were incorporated into one town in the early 19th century.

2. The town has several historic gardens with unique names like “Wind’ll Blow,” “Little Wheel,” and “Twyfy’s Garden” that were part of the original village layouts.

3. Shem Creek, a tidal tributary in Mount Pleasant, was the site of a French attack defeated by Carolinians in 1706 and had a fort built at its mouth during the American Revolution.

4. In 1791, after visiting Snee Farm Plantation, President George Washington embarked from Shem Creek to travel to Charleston.

5. Mount Pleasant is linked to Charleston by the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge, which was the longest cable-stayed bridge in the Western Hemisphere when it opened in 2005.

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