Charles Pinckney National Historic Site Historic Resource Study, August 2000

摘要

Charles Pinckney National Historic Site (the Park) commemorates the life and public services of Charles Pinckney (1757-1824), a prominent South Carolina attorney and statesman who was an important drafter of the United States Constitution. The site contains twenty-eight of the original 715 acres of Snee Farm, a plantation property that Pinckney inherited from his father in 1782 and owned until 1816. Charles Pinckney owned several plantations in addition to Snee Farm, as well as a large town house at 16 Meeting Street in Charleston.1 Easily reached from Charleston by boat, Snee Farm was both a working plantation and an accessible country retreat for Pinckney. Public Law 100-421, enacted September 8, 1988, authorized the establishment of Charles Pinckney National Historic Site. The legislation directed the Secretary of the Interior to (1) provide the interpretation of the life of Charles Pinckney; (2) preserve and interpret Snee Farm, home of Charles Pinckney; and (3) present the history of the United States as a young Nation.2 House of Representatives Report 100-698 elaborated on the sites purpose by calling for the interpretation of the history of all the sites inhabitants, slave as well as free.