Hampstead Village is a neighborhood in Charleston, South Carolina in the US, also known as the Eastside or the East Side.
A prominent merchant, Henry Laurens, bought several tracts totaling 99 acres where Hampstead Village is today.
[2] Laurens had his holdings platted on an English model, with Mary St. to the south (bordering Wraggborough), the edge of the Cooper River to the east, King St. to the west, and an unnamed creek near present-day Cooper St. to the north.
[1] Most of even those lots were sold to Laurens's business partner, Wiliam Bampfield.
In May 1779, South Carolina governor John Rutledge ordered that the new houses be razed because they blocked the view of the City's defenders of the British forces to the north.