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Fort Pleasant
(1775 - 1780), Mount Pleasant
A Patriot work located on Haddrell's Point. Captured by the British in 1780 and used as a POW camp.
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Haddrell's Point was the terminus of a ferry, which ran across the Cooper River from Mount Pleasant to Charleston. Charles Pinckney and Edward Rutledge met Washington's entourage at the ferry and rowed him across the harbor in a "12 oared barge rowed by 12 American Captains of Ships, most elegantly dressed. There were a great number of other boats...and two Boats with Music...as we approached the town a salute with Artillary commenced..."
Haddrell's Point is the point of land on the south side of the mouth of Shem Creek. Pleasant Heights neighborhood was built on the point and surrounding land in the twentieth century. The point can be reached by taking Business 701 through Mount Pleasant and turning left on Hibben Street until it dead ends into Beach Street. Turn right on Beach Street. The point is at the intersection of Beach and Haddrell Streets.
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Haddrell's Point is the tip of land on the south side
of Shem Creek in Mount Pleasant. After the fall of
Charleston, all enlisted men were put on prison hulks
in the harbor, the officers were put on parole in Mt.
Pleasant and allowed to travel as far as Christ
Church, six miles to the north of the village. They had to
routinely check in at the Hibben House (111 Hibben
Street) to validate their parole. Their is no cemetary
at Haddrell's Point.
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The regular, Continental forces captured at Charleston were placed in prisons in and around the city. A special prison camp was set up outside Charleston at Haddrell's Point. [xxxi] A few of the soldiers but most of the American naval personnel were placed aboard prison ships anchored in Charleston harbor.
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