Arcadia Plantation - Georgetown Georgetown County South Carolina SC

Arcadia Plantation – Georgetown – Georgetown County



Arcadia Plantation 2015 - Georgetown County, South Carolina
— Arcadia Plantation © Beverly Stoney, 2015 —
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Basic Information

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

    Located off US 17 on Arcadia Plantation Drive

  • Origin of name – ?

  • Other names – ?

  • Current status – Privately owned

Arcadia Plantation Pond 2015 - Georgetown County, South Carolina
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Timeline

  • 1906 – Dr. Isaac Emerson began buying property on the Waccamaw Neck. He called his property Arcadia which eventually consisted of seven former rice plantations. Therefore, Arcadia was never a plantation (1, p. 3).

    Between 1906 and 1925 Dr. Emerson purchased the following plantations:

    Bannockburn
    Clifton
    Forlorn Hope
    Oak Hill
    Prospect Hill
    Rose Hill

  • 1931 – Dr. Emerson left his property to his grandson, George Vanderbilt.

  • 1936 – Elizabeth Deas Allston sold Fairfield Plantation to George Vanderbilt.

  • 2006 – The property is owned by Lucille Pate, daughter of George Vanderbilt.

Arcadia Plantation Garden 2015 - Georgetown County, South Carolina
— Arcadia Plantation Garden © Beverly Stoney, 2015 —
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Land

  • Number of acres – 90 in 1977 (1, p. 9)

Buildings

  • The plantation house from Prospect Hill is where the current owners live. Over the years they have added onto the antebellum home.

  • There is also a guest house, stables, and bowling alley on the property which were all constructed in the early 1900s. Old structure's include tenant houses and St. Ann's antebellum African-American church (1, p. 5).
Arcadia Plantation Rear Main House 2010 - Georgetown County, South Carolina
— Rear of Arcadia Plantation Main House © Stephen Tyler Lemmons, 2010 —
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References & Resources

  1. National Register of Historic Places
    Nomination form - PDF - submitted in 1977
    Photographs, architectural overview

  2. 30-15 Plantation File, held by the South Carolina Historical Society

  3. 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

  4. 30-14 Plantation File, South Carolina Historical Society
    –  Online Catalog

  5. William P. Baldwin Jr., Plantations of the Low Country (Westbrook, ME: Legacy Publishing, 1994)

  6. Alberta Morel Lachicotte, Georgetown Rice Plantations (Georgetown, SC: Georgetown County Historical Society, 1993)
     Order Georgetown Rice Plantations

  7. 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)
     Order Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of Georgetown County and the Santee River

  8. Catherine Campant Messner, South Carolina's Low Country: A Past Preserved (Orangeburg, SC: Sandlapper Publishing Company, 1988)
     Order South Carolina's Low Country: A Past Preserved

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

Arcadia Plantation 2009 - Georgetown County, South Carolina
— Arcadia Plantation © Brandon Coffey, 2009 —
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Front Lawn of Arcadia Plantation 2009 - Georgetown County, South Carolina
— Front Lawn of Arcadia Plantation © Brandon Coffey, 2009 —
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