Do you know the History of I'on?

I'on has an amazing history!

You may know the Community of I'on as being one of Mt. Pleasant's most Premier neighborhoods, but do you know the History of the 243-Acre Subdivision? I didn't either until I came across the I'on Cemetery on a bike ride one day and had to do some further digging. It has a rich history dating back to the 17th Century when it was first settled.

It is likely that the cemetery was first used to bury David Maybank in 1713 and his wife Susannah in 1716, who were the original settlers of these lands. A Carpenter from England, Maybank made his residences on the Peninsula of Charleston and Hobcaw Plantation. Hobcaw Plantation included the lands of the I'on neighborhood. It is clear that Maybank built a residence in I'on before 1713, as stated in his will, leaving his plantation to his wife.

After being passed down through the family for generations, in 1854, Jacob Bond I'on, great-grandson of David Maybank, erected the oblesque monument still standing in the cemetery today. The monument paid tribute to the Maybank, Read, Bond, and I'on families who had inherited the property through generations. Three sides of the monument were engraved at the time, and the fourth side left blank, possibly for Jabob himself. A wrought iron fence was built surrounding the monument. The fourth side was indeed completed in the 1930s as a Memorial to Jacob.

In 1995 Vince and Tom Grahm visited the property and decided they wanted to contract a "traditional neighborhood." They named it I'on after Jacob Bond I'on, who was said to have "a dignity unequivocal, yet wholly free from assertion, beautifully blended with a courtesy so genuine, as to draw your heart unconsciously to him." Their goal was to create a neighborhood worthy of its namesake and also pay tribute to the long history of the plan.

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