Dataw Plantation - Dataw Island Beaufort County South Carolina SC

Dataw Plantation – Dataw Island – Beaufort County

Special thanks to Denise Sullivan for compiling much of the information on this page.
Basic Information
  • Location – Jenkins Creek, Morgan River, St Helena Parish, Dataw Island, Beaufort County

  • Origin of name – From the Historical Chronology of Dataw Island, "According to history, Dataw Island's name was derived from the legendary giant King Datha, whom the Spanish learned of from Francisco Chicora, an Indian captured in 1521. Legend tells us that he grew so big because of the magical herbs he ate. The meaning of the name Datha was thought to be Greenwood." (Historical Chronology of Dataw Island)

  • Other names – Datha, Data, Westbrook (Historical Chronology of Dataw Island)

  • Current status – Private, gated community

Timeline
Land
Owners
  • Chronological list – Caleb Westbrook (1682-?), Charles Odingsell (1698-1702), Joseph Boone (1702-1730), Colonel Thomas Wigg (1730-1759), Ann Barnwell Reeve Wigg (1759-1770), Lewis Reeve (1770-1780s), William Sams (1780s-1798), Berners Barnwell Sams and Lewis Reeve Sams (1798-1850s), Kate Gleason (1928-1933), Elizabeth Sanders Rowland and family (1933-1983), Alcoa South Carolina (1983-2007), Dataw Island Properties (2007-present)

Slaves
Buildings
  • Various outbuildings were built in the surrounding area in addition to the houses, the most substantial being of tabby. Among these were a church, overseer's house, slave cabins, kitchen with eight-foot fireplace, smokehouse with unique tabby roof, dairy, fowl house, and large pigeon house.

Web Resources
  • History of Dataw Island: Click here

  • Historical Chronology of Dataw Island: Click here - complied by the Dataw Historic Foundation

Print Resources
  • Initial references: 67

  • Northern Money Southern Land, The Lowcountry Plantations Sketches of Chlotilde R. Martin edited by Robert B. Cuthbert and Stephen G. Hoffius, Publisher, The University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, S.C.

Contact Information
  • Dataw Island
    100 Dataw Club Road
    Dataw Island, SC 29920

    Telephone: 843-838-8261
    Website: Click here

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