Basic Information

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

  Original plantation lands were located northwest of US 17 in the vicinity of Richmond Hill and once stretched from the Waccamaw River to Murrells Inlet.
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – ?

• Current status – Privately owned

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – Rice

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Allston; Kimbel; Dr. John D. Magill; John D. Magill, Jr.; William Magill
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

• National Register of Historic Places
  – Nomination form - PDF - submitted in 1988
  – Photographs, architectural overview
  

Print Resources

• 30-15 Plantation File, held by the South Carolina Historical Society
  

• 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
  

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

• 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) pp. 197-200.
  
   Order Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of Georgetown County and the Santee River

• James L. Michie, Richmond Hill Plantation, 1810-1868: The Discovery of Antebellum Life on a Waccamaw Rice Plantation (Spartanburg, SC: Reprint Company, 1989)
  
  

More about Georgetown County

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