Basic Information

• Location – James Island, Charleston County

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Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

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Land

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Owners

• Alphabetical list – Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Bessinger (1967), E. G. Britz, Cuthbert (1820), Gervais, Captain Thomas Heyward (early 1700's), John R. Jeffries (1939-1949), Winborn Lawton (1840's), Whitehurst, Nicholas Zervos (1958-1960)
  

Slaves

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Buildings

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Web Resources

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Print Resources

• 30-15 Plantation File, held by the South Carolina Historical Society

• As a child, Clyde Bresee's family moved from Pennsylvania to South Carolina where his father managed the dairy farm at Lawton Plantation in the 1920s. Breese penned Sea Island Yankee as a reflection of his childhood and time spent on James Island.
  
  Clyde Bresee, Sea Island Yankee (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1995)
  
  

More about Charleston & James Island

• Learn more about historic Charleston County including the port city of Charleston and lovely nearby James Island. We have helpful guides to Charleston history and Charleston libraries and museums – plus Charleston bed & breakfasts, Charleston hotels, and Charleston jobs. We also have guides to James Island restaurants and James Island real estate.