Basic Information

• Location – Collins Creek (a branch of the South Santee River), McClellanville, St. James Santee Parish, Charleston County

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – ?

• Current status – The land is part of the Santee Coastal Reserve managed by the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources.
  

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

• 1915 – The plantation became part of the Santee Gun Club and later became part of the Santee Coastal Reserve.
  

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – ?

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Jonah Collins, William Mazyck, Richard Withers Shackelford
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

• January 29, 1854 – William Mazyck had the following slaves confirmed by Bishop Davis: Mingo, Louis, Tom, Jo, Cato (Bridges & Williams, p. 437).
  

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

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Print Resources

• Initial references: 40

• Anne Baker Leland Bridges and Roy Williams III, St James Santee Plantation Parish History and Records, 1685-1925, (Spartanburg, SC: The Reprint Company, Publishers, 1997).
  

• Suzanne Cameron Linder and Marta Leslie Thacker (with preliminary research by Agnes Leland Baldwin), Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of Georgetown County and the Santee River (Columbia: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 2001), pp. 776-777.

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