Brite Savannah Plantation – Hopkins – Richland County

Basic Information

• Location – Dry Branch, Hopkins, Richland County
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – ?

• Current status – ?

Timeline

• 1769 – Earliest known date of existence (1, p. 351)
  

  William Weston established the plantation and grew indigo (1, p. 351).
  

• ? – House built
  

  The Westons built a house with two chimneys at Brite Savannah (1, p. 351).
  

• 1795 – William Weston II inherited property from his father. He planted cotton instead of indigo (1, p. 351).
  

• 1830 – William Weston II died leaving the plantation to his only living child, Dr. William Weston III (1, p. 351).
  

• 1840 – The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad acquired the right-of-way to build a rail line across Brite Savannah. The construction removed so much dirt that the Westons moved to Grovewood Plantation abandoning the family cemetery and house at Brite Savannah (1, p. 351).
  

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – Indigo at the plantation's founding then cotton (1, p. 351).
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• There were no signs of the house by the mid-1900s (1, p. 351).
  

References & Resources

1. Information contributed by Margaret M. R. Eastman, who discovered this information while researching her family, from:
   Virginia Meynard, The History of Lower Richland County and Its Early Planters, (Columbia, SC: R.L. Bryan Company, 2010)