Basic Information

• Location – Submerged under Lake Moultrie, St. John's Berkeley Parish, Berkeley County

• Origin of name – Named after the first owner
  

• Other names – Sarazins, Sarazen, Sarrazin

• Current status – In 1939, work began on the Santee Cooper Hydroelectric and Navigation Project. This project displaced many families and communities, and many historic homes were lost as the area was flooded.
  

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• 1825 – House built

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – ?

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Colonel Thomas Porcher; Dr. William Porcher; Thomas Sarazin

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

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Print Resources

• Initial references: See #1

• Russell J. Cross, Historic Ramblin's Through Berkeley (Columbia, SC: R.L. Bryan Co., 1985).
  

• John B. Irving, A Day on Cooper River (Columbia, SC: R.L. Bryan Company, 1969).
  

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

• Norman Sinkler Walsh, MD, Plantations, Pineland Villages, Pinopolis and Its People (Virginia Beach, VA: Donning Company Publishers, 2006).