In this study, we have investigated ground state properties of one-dimensional antiferromagnetic spin-1 chain with single-ion anisotropy at very low temperatures using the Transfer Matrix method. Magnetic plateaus, phase diagram, specific heat, susceptibility of the spin chain have been evaluated numerically from the free energy. Results are in good agreement with the experimental data for the spin-1 compounds [Ni2(Medpt)2(µ-ox)(H2O)2](ClO4)22H2O, [Ni2(Medpt)2(µ-ox)(µ-N3)](ClO4)0.5H2O, Ni(C2H8N2)Ni(CN)4 and Ni(C10H8N2)2Ni(CN)4.H2O. However, spin-Peierls transition have not been observed in the temperature dependence of specific heat and magnetic susceptibility. The physics of low-dimensional i.e., one-dimensional (1D) or quasi-one-dimensional (Q1D) spin-S (S≥ 1) chains has attracted a considerable amount of attention after the prediction by Haldane 1 that a 1D Heisenberg antiferromagnet should have an energy gap between the singlet ground state and the first excited triplet states in the case of an integer spin quantum number, while the energy levels are gapless in the case of a half integer spin quantum number. The most fascinating characteristic of these low-dimensional systems is that they show magnetic plateaus i.e., quantization of magnetization at low temperatures near the ground state. This phenomenon has been observed not only in Haldane spin systems but also in other spin gapped systems for instance; spinPeierls and spin ladders systems. A general condition of quantization of the magnetization was derived from the Lieb-Schultz-Mattis theorem 2 for low-dimensional magnetic systems. The fact that, Oshikawa, Yamanaka and Affleck (OYA) 3 discussed this plateau problem and derived a condition p(S − m) = integer, necessary for the appearance of the plateau in the magnetization curve of one-dimensional spin system, where S is the magnitude of spin, m is the magnetization per site and p is the spatial period of the ground state, respectively. The 2S + 1 magnetization plateaus (contained the saturated magnetization m = S) can appear when the magnetic field increases from zero to its saturation value h s . Theoretical studies have suggested the realization of quantization of magnetization in various systems, 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14 and it has been observed in experimental studies. 15,16,17,18,19 Recent years, antiferromagnetic (AF) spin-1 systems among the other low-dimensional gapped spin-S systems have drawn attention from both theorists and experimentalists in literature. So far, many Q1D gapped AF spin-1 systems, which are called Haldane systems, spin-Peierls and ladder compounds, were synthesized and to understand the ground state behaviors of the spin-1 AF Heisenberg chain have been extensively studied. The first Q1D spin-1 Haldane gap compound was Ni(C 2 H 8 N 2 ) 2 NO 2 (ClO 4 ) (abbreviated NENP) which was synthesized by Meyer et al. 20 in 1981, just before the Haldane's prediction appeared. Renard et al. 21 showed that NENP had the energy spectrum predicted by Haldane; the magnetic susceptibility ...