— Arcadia Plantation © Brandon Coffey —

Basic Information

• Location – Waccamaw River, Georgetown, All Saints Waccamaw Parish, Georgetown County

  Located off US 17 on Arcadia Plantation Drive
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – ?

• Current status – Privately owned
  
  

— Front Lawn of Arcadia Plantation © Brandon Coffey —

Timeline

• 1906 – Dr. Isaac Emerson began buying property on the Waccamaw Neck. He called his property Arcadia which eventually consisted of seven former rice plantations. Therefore, Arcadia was never a plantation (National Register, p. 3).
  

  Between 1906 and 1925 Dr. Emerson purchased the following plantations:
  

  Bannockburn Clifton Forlorn Hope

  Oak Hill Prospect Hill Rose Hill

  
  
• 1931 – Dr. Emerson left his property to his grandson, George Vanderbilt.
  

• 1936 – Elizabeth Deas Allston sold Fairfield Plantation to George Vanderbilt.
  

• 2006 – The property is owned by Lucille Pate, daughter of George Vanderbilt.
  

— Arcadia Plantation House © Brandon Coffey —

Land

• Number of acres – 90 in 1977 (National Register, p. 9)
  

Owners

• Chronological list – Dr. Isaac Emerson (1906-1931); George Vanderbilt (1931-?); Wallace and Lucille Pate
  

Buildings

• The plantation house from Prospect Hill is where the current owners live. Over the years they have added onto the antebellum home.
  

• There is also a guest house, stables, and bowling alley on the property which were all constructed in the early 1900s. Old structure's include tenant houses and St. Ann's antebellum African-American church (National Register, p. 5).
  

Web Resources

• National Register of Historic Places
  – Nomination form - PDF - submitted in 1977
  – Photographs, architectural overview
  

Print Resources

• 30-15 Plantation File, South Carolina Historical Society
  –  Online Catalog

• 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
  

• 30-14 Plantation File, South Carolina Historical Society
  –  Online Catalog

• William P. Baldwin Jr., Plantations of the Low County: South Carolina 1697-1865 (Westbrook, ME: Legacy Publishing, 1994)
   Order Plantations of the Low County: South Carolina 1697-1865
  

• Alberta Morel Lachicotte, Georgetown Rice Plantations (Georgetown, SC: Georgetown County Historical Society, 1993)
   Order Georgetown Rice Plantations

• Suzanne Cameron Linder and Marta Leslie Thacker, Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of Georgetown County and the Santee River (Columbia, SC: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 2001)
   Order Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of Georgetown County and the Santee River

• Catherine Campant Messner, South Carolina's Low Country: A Past Preserved (Orangeburg, SC: Sandlapper Publishing Company, 1988)
   Order South Carolina's Low Country: A Past Preserved

• George C. Rodgers, Jr., The History of Georgetown County, South Carolina (Spartanburg, SC: Reprint Company, 1990)
   Order The History of Georgetown County, South Carolina

More about Georgetown County

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