Basic Information

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

  Original plantation lands were located in the vicinity of Waverly Mills, northwest of US 17.
  

• Origin of name – Probably named after Sir Walter Scott’s romantic Waverly novels.

• Other names – Montpelier (until 1807)

• Current status – Part of the land is privately owned and the rest is a residential community and golf course
  

Timeline

• 1794 – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

• 1875 – Philip Rossignol Lachicotte and Sons invented and patented a "new and improved method" for cleaning rice. They added silica powder which enabled polishing machines to clean and whiten the grains in less time and with less breakage than before.
  

Land

• Number of acres – 659

• Primary crop – Rice

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Allston; Philip Rossignol Lachicotte (1871); Percival Pawley, Jr. (1731); William Pawley; Paxton; Alberta Lachicotte Quattlebaum; Woodruff
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

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Print Resources

• Initial references: See #1, 40, 50

• 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. 133-138.
  

More about Georgetown County

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