Basic Information

• Location – Winyah Bay, Georgetown County

  Located east of US 17 off Island Road on Dover Plantation Road
  

• Origin of name – Named after Dover, England. There was a crossing over the English Channel between Calais, France and Dover. At Calais Plantation there was a ferry crossing to Dover Plantation.
  

• Other names – ?

• Current status – Privately owned

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – ?

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Daniel; Horry; Sage
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

• ?

Print Resources

• Initial references: 24, 40

• Suzanne Cameron Linder and Marta Leslie Thacker (with preliminary research by Agnes Leland Baldwin), Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of Georgetown County and the Santee River (Columbia: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 2001), pp. 561-566.
  

Contact Information

• Telephone: ?

More about Georgetown County

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