McLeod Plantation Historic Site

Six clapboard slave cabins still stand on James Island, and that fact alone earns this place its weight. The plantation house — constructed in about 1858 in the Georgian style — served as a Confederate hospital during the Civil War, then, after the evacuation of Charleston in early 1865, was occupied by African American soldiers of the 55th Massachusetts Volunteer Regiments and later used as a Freedmen's Bureau office. Charleston County Parks opened the site to the public in 2015. Come for the cabins. They are the record.