Basic Information

• Location – Pee Dee River, Plantersville, Prince George Winyah Parish, Georgetown County

  Original plantation lands were located off Plantersville Road between Chicora Wood Avenue and Exchange Drive.
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – Ditchfield, Ditchford

• Current status – Part of Exchange Plantation

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – ?

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Allston; Fraser
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

• ?

Print Resources

• Initial references: 4

• William P. Baldwin, Jr., Plantations of the Low Country: South Carolina 1697-1865 (Greensboro, NC: Legacy Publications, 1987).
  

• 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. 343-346.
  

• George C. Rogers, Jr., The History of Georgetown County, South Carolina (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1970).
  

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