Basic Information

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

  Original plantation lands were located north of Waverly Creek and stretched from the Waccamaw River to the Atlantic Ocean.
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – ?

• Current status – Litchfield Plantation resort and golf course
  

Timeline

• 1710 – Earliest known date of existence

  Land grant from King George II through his Lords Proprieters to Thomas Hepworth
  

• 1740 – House built

Land

• Number of acres – 3,900

• Primary crop – Rice

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Thomas Hepworth; Arthus Herbert Lachicotte; Ralph Nesbit; Dr. Henry Norris (1926); Harry Edmond Parker, J. Philip Booth and Thornwell Hay Parker (1942); Louise Price Parsons (1966); Price; Ramsey; John Simons; Daniel Tucker (1797); John Tucker; Dr. Henry Massingberd Tucker; John Hyrne Tucker; Joshua John Ward
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

• Litchfield Plantation

Print Resources

• Initial references: 1, 2, 4, 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. 141-144.
  

Contact Information

• Litchfield Plantation
  PO Box 290
  Pawleys Island, SC 29585
  

  Telephone: 800-869-1410

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