Basic Information

• Location – Submerged under Lake Marion, St. John's Berkeley Parish, Orangeburg County

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – Black Jack, Dorshee

• Current status – In 1939, work began on the Santee Cooper Hydroelectric and Navigation Project. This project displaced many families and communities, and many historic homes were lost as the area was flooded.
  

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – ?

Owners

• Alphabetical list – DeGignilliat; Thomas Gaillard; Charles Sinkler; Simeon Theus
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

• Dawshee Plantation - a brief summary of the owners (scroll down menu at left)
  

Print Resources

• Initial references: 31

• Russell J. Cross, Historic Ramblin's Through Berkeley (Columbia, SC: R.L. Bryan Co., 1985).
  

• Claude Henry Neuffer (editor), Names in South Carolina, 1943-1983 (Columbia, SC: The State Printing Company).