Basic Information

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

  Located northeast of Gardens Corner off US 17 on Nemours Plantation Road
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – ?

• Current status – Owned by Nemours Plantation Wildlife Foundation
  

Timeline

• 1726 – Earliest known date of existence

  Granted to Charles Edwards

• ? – House built

Land

• Number of acres – 2,546 in 1732

• Primary crop – Rice

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Joseph Blake (1837), William Bull, Charles Edwards, George Elliott, William Henry Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lowndes, Alice Middleton, Nemours Plantation Wildlife Foundation
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

• ?

Print Resources

• 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
  

• 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. 363-365.
   Order Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of the ACE River Basin - 1860
  

More about Beaufort County

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