Basic Information

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

  Coosaw Plantation and Coosaw Island Plantation are commonly confused. The close proximity of the two, with Coosaw Plantation on Chisholm Island on the north side of the Coosaw River and Coosaw Island on the south side of the river, compounds the confusion.
  

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Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

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Land

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• Primary crop – Sea Island cotton

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Alexander Robert Chisolm, Arthur and Sarah Middleton, Joseph Morton, Richard Stevens
  

Slaves

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Buildings

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Web Resources

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Print Resources

• 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. 151-153.
  

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