Basic Information

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

  Located off River Road south of the Town of Yemassee
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – ?

• Current status – Privately owned
  

Timeline

• 1700's – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

Land

• Number of acres – 812

• Primary crop – Rice

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Bissell, Joseph Bryan, Erickson, Mary Izard (1759), Walter Izard, Jr., Arthur Middleton, Henry Middleton (1816), John Izard Middleton, Paul Seabrook (1925)
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – 66

Buildings

• There was a slave settlement on either side of the owner's house.
  

Web Resources

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Print Resources

• Lawrence S. Rowland, Alexander Moore, and George C. Rodgers, 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

• Suzanne Cameron Linder, Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of the ACE River Basin - 1860 (Columbia, SC: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 1995), pp. 239-245.
   Order Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of the ACE River Basin - 1860
  

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