Basic Information

• Location – Old Chehaw River, St. Bartholomew's Parish, Colleton County

• Origin of name – Named after Elias Ball, an early owner of the property
  

• Other names – ?

• Current status – Part of Mary's Island Plantation owned by Ducks Unlimited/Wetlands America Trust
  

Timeline

• 1760s – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – Rice

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Ball, Elliott, Hunt, Laurens, Skirving, Smith
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

• ?

Print Resources

• Initial references:

• 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. 23-25.