Chachan Plantation – Cordesville – Berkeley County

Basic Information

• Location – Western branch of the Cooper River, Old Cordesville, Berkeley County

  Located off SC 44 (Doctor Evans Road) on Chachan Road
  

• Possible origin of name – Chachan is the Sephardic Jewish word for Rabbi (3)
  
  Mason Farmer, a descendant of Antoine Cordes, shares:
  The Cordes coat of arms traces back to the Marquis De Cordoue a noble French family with a Sephardic Jewish background. Antonie used these very same coat of arms, which in those days was a legal description about who you are which lines you decend from. ... Chachan or Chacham is Rabbi in the Sephardic culture. That is more than likely the orgins of the Chachan plantation name.

• Other names – North Chacham

• Current status – ?

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – Rice

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Ashby, Cain, Antoine Cordes, Francis Cordes (1811), James Cordes, Dr. Edward J. Dennis
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

References & Resources

1. Claude Henry Neuffer, editor, Names in South Carolina, Volume I through 30 (Columbia, SC: The State Printing Company)
    Order Names in South Carolina, Volumes I-XII, 1954-1965
    Order Names in South Carolina, Index XIII-XVIII
   

2. J. Russell Cross, Historic Ramblin's through Berkeley (Columbia, SC: R.L. Bryan Company, 1985)
    Order Historic Ramblin's through Berkeley
   

3. Information contributed by Mason Farmer, a descendant of Antonie Cordes.