Basic Information

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

  Follow US 17 South to Old Sheldon Church Road then turn right onto Brewton Plantation Road
  

• Origin of name – Named after Miles Brewton
  

• Other names – ?

• Current status – Privately owned
  

Timeline

• 1732 – Earliest known date of existence

• 1893 – House built

Land

• Number of acres – 2,000

• Primary crop – Rice

• John R. Todd added the avenue of live oaks in 1932

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Bellinger, Blake, Brewton, Bull, Butler, Frazier, Gregorie, Izard, McPherson, Skirving, Terni, Todd
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

• ?

Print Resources

• Initial references: 1

• 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. 95-99.
  

More about Beaufort County

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