Basic Information

• Location – May River, Beaufort County

• Origin of name – Named for the shape of the land

• Other names – ?

• Current status – ?

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

  A Mr. McKimmie owned the plantation. It was next purchased by Samuel Breck Parkman (Neuffer, bk. 2, vol. 18, p. 7).
  

• 1838 – In July, Samuel Breck Parkman set sail with four of his five children on the SS Pulaski. Off the coast of North Carolina the boiler exploded and killed many of the passengers. Samuel and his children did not survive.
  

Land

• Number of acres – 900

• Primary crop – ?

Owners

• Alphabetical list – McKimmie, Samuel Breck Parkman

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

• The Sinking of the Pulaski

Print Resources

• Claude Henry Neuffer (editor), Names in South Carolina, 1943-1983 (Columbia, SC: The State Printing Company).
  

Contact Information

• Telephone: ?

More about Beaufort County

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