Eldorado Plantation

Eldorado Plantation was the home of Major General Thomas Pinckney and his second wife Frances Motte Middleton, it was built around 1797 in Charleston County, South Carolina.

[1] After Pinckney returned from Europe, where he had been serving as the United States minister to England and Spain, he bought a plantation on the South Santee River.

His eldest son, Thomas Pinckney Jr and wife Elizabeth Izard Pinckney, took up residence at his wife Frances's family home, Fairfield Plantation, just upstream on the South Santee River.

It was owned at the time by the grandson of General Thomas Pinckney, Capt.

[3] The land was later sold and today is part of the Santee National Wildlife Refuge.