Brandywine Boulevard Getting Name Change

Goodbye, Brandywine.

At the request of Mayor Micheal Heitzler, the planning commission agreed last week to rename the downtown boulevard that runs from St. James Avenue to the city's public works facility across U.S. 52.

It will return to a name it held centuries ago: Button Hall Avenue.

Heitzler is is one of the area's leading historians on Goose Creek. In the past few years, Heitzler and fellow historians uncovered the truth about the short stretch of road.

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Button Hall Avenue was a dirt road that came off St. James Avenue toward a family home near where the water town sits today — long before N. Goose Creek Boulevard cut through the area.

The property changed hands many times and Button Hall lost its identity. "The name was lost because the folks who knew about it left," Heitzler said.

When the Brandywine Townhomes were built, the road was given its current name. But digging through documents led to the discovery of the Button Hall name and the story of the family that lived there: Rebecca Moore and her husband, Capt. Thomas Barker Jr.

Heitzler said he would like to incorporate the Button Hall Plantation name into planned improvements near the water tower, including the Park at Button Hall and the Button Hall Fire Station.

"I'd like to connect the 330 year story of Gooe Creek to today," he said.