Basic Information

• Location – Combahee River, St. Bartholomew's Parish, ACE Basin, Colleton County

• Origin of name – This plantation was named Bluff because it stood at the head of two avenues of live oaks on a high bluff.
  

• Other names – ?

• Current status – ?

Timeline

• 1780s – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – Rice

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Combahee Corporation (1915), Arthur Heyward, Daniel and Louise Blake Heyward (1870), Julius Henry Heyward, Nathaniel Heyward, Lane (1946)
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – 1,331 in 1851 (Nathaniel Heyward)
  

Buildings

• House destroyed during Civil War.

Web Resources

• ?

Print Resources

• Lucius G. Fishburne, Plantation Notes, St. Bartholomew's Parish, 1960, held by the South Carolina Historical Society
  

• Carolina W. Todd and Sidney Wait, South Carolina: A Day at a Time (Orangeburg, SC: Sandlapper Publishing Company, 2008)
  
  

• Suzanne Cameron Linder, Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of the ACE River Basin - 1860 (Columbia, SC: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 1995), pp. 61-63.
   Order Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of the ACE River Basin - 1860