— Oldfield Plantation House in the 1970s © —

Basic Information

• Location – Okatie River, Okatie, Beaufort County

  Original plantation lands were located off SC 170 in the vicinity of present-day Oldfield Golf Club
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – Wigg's Bluff, Indigo

• Current status – Golf course community
  

Timeline

• 1732 – Earliest known date of existence
  

  Governor Robert Johnson received a land grant from the Lords Proprietors (Brief history).
  

• 1752 – The property was transferred to Gabriel Manigault (Brief history).
  

• ? – Col. William Hazzard owned the plantation (Brief history).
  

• 1781 – British troops in the area burned the house, but it was later rebuilt.
  

  At this time the property was known as Wigg's Bluff as Edward Wigg had married into the Hazzard family.
  

• 1862 – Union gunboats shelled the house.
  

• ? – Pauline Pratt Webel owned Oldfield along with Goodhope Plantation (Brief history).
  

• 1972 – Robin Carrier purchased the property. She built a Georgian style home which now serves as Oldfield's River Club (Brief history).
  

  At this time the name of the plantation was changed to Indigo.
  

• 1985 – Robin Carrier sold the plantation to a developer from Hilton Head Island who used it for a horse farm (Brief history).
  

• 1998 – Crescent Resources LLC. purchased the property and began to develop it as a golf course community (Brief history).
  

• 2010 – TI Oldfield Development acquired the assets of the development balance of land sites (Brief history).
  

Land

• Number of acres – 927 in 1972; 800 in 2005

• Primary crop – ?

Owners

• Chronological list – Robert Johnson (1732-1752); Gabriel Manigault (1752-?); Col. William Hazzard; Wigg; Pauline Pratt Webel; Robin Carrier (1972-1985); Crescent Resources LLC. (1998-2010); TI Oldfield Development (2010-present)
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• House built in the 1970s is currently used as Oldfield's River Club.
  

Web Resources

• Brief history of Oldfield: Click here

Print Resources

• ?

Contact Information

• Oldfield
  1 Oldfield Way
  Bluffton, SC 29909
  

  Telephone: 843-645-4601, Club
  Website: Click here
  

More about Beaufort County

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