Peter's Point Plantation
Peter's Point was built by Isaac Jenkins Mikell in 1840. The house was built at the intersection of St. Pierre's Creek and Fishing Creek. The site was Gen. Lafayette’s departure point from the island in 1826 after he visited the island during a southern tour. The plantation house displays early Edisto Island plantation and Greek Revival styles. Although Mikell, a Princeton graduate, was one of the wealthiest planters in the state, his only political service was as a magistrate and commissioner of the public schools of Edisto. One of Mikell's projects was the landscaping of the grounds surrounding the house. The house was listed in the National Register on June 19, 1973.
The plantation was one of the world's largest producers of Sea Island Cotton and was as large as 2,200 acres in 1860. It had an estimated yearly ginned cotton production of approximately 70,000 pounds. The house is sometimes, less frequently known as the Isaac Jenkins Mikell House, but that name is much more commonly applied to Greek Revival house Mikell built in Charleston in 1853.
