Basic Information

• Location – Whale Branch (part of the Broad River), Grays Hill, St Helena Parish, Beaufort County
  

  Located west of US 21 off Clarendon Road on Clarendon Plantation Drive
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – ?

• Current status – Privately owned
  

Timeline

• 1780 – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

• 1816 – Paul Hamilton, Governor of South Carolina from 1804 to 1806, was buried on Rhodes Plantation. The plantation later became part of Clarendon. Today the grave site is located on the border of Clarendon Plantation and the Federal Laurel Bay Housing Project.
  

• 1993 – The plantation lands were converted into a cattle ranch.
  

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – ?

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Burton, Corning, James M. Cox, Flyer, Willis Irwin, White
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

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Print Resources

• Initial references: 1, 24

More about Beaufort County

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