Basic Information

• Location – Combahee River, Prince William Parish, Beaufort County

  Located about two miles south of US 17 where it crosses the Combahee River
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – ?

• Current status – Privately owned
  

Timeline

• 1786 – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – Rice

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Alexander Garden, Jr. (1786), George Morgan Gibbes, Godin Guerard, Ester Heyward, Nathaniel Heyward (1837), William Henry Heyward, Oswald Lightsey estate, Alice Middleton (1892), Moses Mordecai (1870)
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves –

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

• ?

Print Resources

• Initial references:

• Suzanne Cameron Linder, Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of the ACE River Basin – 1860 (Columbia: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 1995), pp. 53-55.
  

More about Beaufort County

• Learn more about historic Beaufort County, including the lovely town of Beaufort SC as well as Hilton Head. We have helpful guides to Beaufort SC history and Beaufort SC libraries and museums – plus Beaufort SC restaurants, Beaufort SC bed & breakfasts, Beaufort SC hotels, and Beaufort SC real estate.