Basic Information

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

  Original plantation lands were located northwest of US 17 between Hagley Estates and True Blue community.
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – Wahocca, Wachocker

• Current status – Residential community and golf course

Timeline

• 1711 – Earliest known date of existence

• 1773 – Inherited by Shorey Pawley

• 1801 – Anthony Pawley sold to William Allston

• 1839 – Colonel Thomas Pinckney Alston inherited property from his father
  

Land

• Number of acres – 805

• Primary crop – Rice

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Alston; Mazyck; Norris; Anthony Pawley; George Pawley; Shorey Pawley; Weston
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

• ?

Print Resources

• Initial references: 22, 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. 113-116.
  

More about Georgetown County

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