Oakvale Plantation – Johns Island – Charleston County

Basic Information

• Location – Stono River, Johns Island, St. John's Colleton Parish, Charleston County

  Original property located off River Road (SC 45) on Burden Creek Road and Kemway Road
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – Burden's

• Current status – Stono Point subdivision (private residential area not open to the public)
  

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

• 1805 or 1806 – Kinsey Burden married Mary Legare and they moved to Oakvale Plantation (Porcher & Fick, p. 96).
  

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – Sea island cotton

  Kinsey Burden was the first to develop sea island cotton through seed selection (Porcher & Fick, p. 96).
  

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Kinsey Burden, Thomas Legare, Charles Louis Trenholm
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

• ?

Print Resources

• Richard Dwight Porcher and Sarah Fick, The Story of Sea Island Cotton (Charleston: Wyrick & Company, 2005).