Basic Information

• Location – Fishing Creek, Edisto Island, St. John's Colleton Parish, Charleston County

  Located at 8202 Oyster Factory Road off SC 174
  

• Origin of name – Named after James Crawford, an early owner
  

• Other names – ?

• Current status – ?

Timeline

• 1784 – Earliest known date of existence

• 1830s – House built

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – Sea island cotton
  

Owners

• Alphabetical list – James Crawford; Ephraim Mikell; William Archibald Mikell; William James Whaley
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

• National Register of Historic Places
  – Nomination Form - submitted in 1992 by Sarah Fick - requires Adobe Reader
  – Photographs, architectural overview
  

Print Resources

• Initial references: 4

• Porcher, Richard Dwight and Sarah Fick. The Story of Sea Island Cotton. Charleston: Wyrick & Company, 2005.
  

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