— Oak Avenue at Oak Lawn Plantation © Gazie Nagle —

Basic Information

• Location – Parkers Ferry, St. Paul's Parish, Charleston County

  Near Parkers Ferry and Osbourne close to Edisto River
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – Pon Pon

• Current status – Privately owned

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – Sea island cotton and rice
  

Owners

• Alphabetical list – William Elliott, Ambrose Gonzales, Hampton, Sacheverel, William Skirving, Smith
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• House burned by Sherman

Web Resources

• ?

Print Resources

• Claude Henry Neuffer, editor, Names in South Carolina, Volume I through 30 (Columbia, SC: The State Printing Company)
   Order Names in South Carolina, Volumes I-XII, 1954-1965
   Order Names in South Carolina, Index XIII-XVIII
  

• 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), pp. 407-417
   Order Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of the ACE River Basin - 1860
  

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