Basic Information

• Location – South Edisto River, Jehossee Island, St. John's Colleton Parish, ACE Basin, Charleston County

  Original property was bounded on the west by the South Edisto River, on the north and east by the Dawho River, and on the south by the Intracoastal Waterway
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – Jehosea

• Current status – Part of the ACE Basin National Wildlife Refuge

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – Rice

Owners

• Alphabetical list – William Aiken, Charles Drayton, John F. Maybank, Thomas Milliken
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

• ?

Print Resources

• 30-15 Plantation File, held by the South Carolina Historical Society

• Suzanne Cameron Linder, Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of the ACE River Basin - 1860 (Columbia, SC: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 1995)
   Order Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of the ACE River Basin - 1860
  

Contact Information

• ACE Basin National Wildlife Refuge
  8675 Willtown Road / PO Box 848
  Hollywood, SC 29449

  E-Mail: acebasin@fws.gov
  Website: Click here

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