— Drive at Bonny Hall Plantation © Brandon Coffey —

Basic Information

• Location – Combahee River, Yemassee, Prince William Parish, Beaufort County

  Located off River Road south of the Town of Yemassee
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – ?

• Current status – Privately owned
  

— Gate at Bonny Hall Plantation © Brandon Coffey —

Timeline

• 1732 – Earliest known date of existence

• 1897 – Current house built by George Egan
  

— View over the Hedges of Bonny Hall Plantation © Brandon Coffey —

Land

• Number of acres – 330 in 1860; 1,700 in 1897

• Primary crop – Rice

Owners

• Alphabetical list – J. Bennett Bissell, Joseph Blake, Walter Blake, Hugh Bryan, Robert A. Carter, John Cowperthwaite, Nelson and Ellen McCarter Doubleday, George W. Egan, Melvin O. Lane, Arthur Lyman
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – 75 in 1860 (Walter Blake)

— Entrance at Bonny Hall Plantation © Gazie Nagle —

Buildings

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Web Resources

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Print Resources

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

• 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
  

• N. Jane Iseley and William P. Baldwin, Lowcountry Plantations Today (Greensboro, NC: Legacy Publications 2001)
  
  

• Lawrence S. Rowland, Alexander Moore, and George C. Rogers, Jr. The History of Beaufort County, South Carolina: Volume 1, 1514-1861 (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1996)
   Order The History of Beaufort County, South Carolina: Volume 1, 1514-1861

More about Beaufort County

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