— Harrietta Plantation House © Brandon Coffey —

Basic Information

• Location – South Santee River, McClellanville, St. James Santee Parish, Charleston County

  Five miles east of McClellanville off US 17, between Collins Creek and the South Santee River.
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – ?

• Current status – Privately owned

— Harrietta Plantation © Brandon Coffey —

Timeline

• 1735 – Earliest known date of existence

• 1800 – Original two-story portion of the house was constructed for Mrs. Hariott Horry and remained unoccupied for the first 70 years.
  

• 1858 – House was bought and finally occupied by Stephen Duval Doar. According to Doar's great-grandson, Alexander Lucas Lofton, "The Doars lived at the plantation until it was sold in the late twenties to Mr. Shonnard. My mother lived at the Wedge only a short walk from Harrietta, and I walked from the Wedge to Harrietta many times as a young boy. The wings on the house were there at that time, and probably were built at the time my great grandfather purchased it or even earlier." The picture below was sent to us by A. Lucas Lofton and estimates the shot was taken sometime between 1915 and 1923.
  

— Harrietta Plantation © Howard R. Jacobs —

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – Rice

Owners

• Alphabetical list – John P. Abney, Gilson Clapp (1735), Mary and David Deas, David Doar (1872), Stephen Duval Doar (1858), John Fenwick (1709), Mrs. Dorette L. Fleischmann, Alson D. Goode (1981), Harriott Pinckney Horry (1806), David Inglis (1785), King Jeremy, Horatio S. Shonnards (1928), John Wagner (1791), Larry Young
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

— View of River at Harrietta Plantation © Brandon Coffey —

Buildings

Web Resources

• National Register of Historic Places
  – Nomination form - PDF - submitted in 1975
  – Photographs, architectural overview
  

Print Resources

• George C. Rodgers, Jr., The History of Georgetown County, South Carolina (Spartanburg, SC: Reprint Company, 1990)
   Order The History of Georgetown County, South Carolina

• Catherine Campant Messner, South Carolina's Low Country: A Past Preserved (Orangeburg, SC: Sandlapper Publishing Company, 1988)
   Order South Carolina's Low Country: A Past Preserved

More about Charleston

• Learn more about historic Charleston County including the port city of Charleston. We have helpful guides to Charleston history and Charleston libraries and museums – plus Charleston restaurants, Charleston bed & breakfasts, Charleston hotels, Charleston real estate, and Charleston jobs.
  

— Yard at Harrietta Plantation © Brandon Coffey —

— Harrietta Plantation © —

— Statue at Gates of Harrietta Plantation © Brandon Coffey —