— Airy Hall Plantation © Gazie Nagle —

Basic Information

• Location – Ashepoo River, Fenwick, St. Bartholomew's Parish, ACE Basin, Colleton County

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – ?

• Current status – Privately owned

Timeline

• 1701 – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

Land

• Number of acres – 3,221 in 1849

• Primary crop – Rice

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Laurence Barringer, E.P. Burton Lumber Company (1906), Robert G. Elbert (1928), Elliott, Farmer, Fishburne (1820), Godfrey, William Lashley (1701), Oswald and Norris Lightsey, Buck Limehouse (1979), Litchfield, Maynard, Philip Smith Price (1849), Emma Sanders (1872), Savage, Shubrick, Dr. James Skirving, Philip and Elizabeth Skirving Smith (1770), Thomas P. Stoney, John D. Warren (1872), Wright
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

References & Resources

1. 30-15 Plantation File, held by the South Carolina Historical Society
   

2. 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
   

3. Margaret F. Kemp, Colleton County, South Carolina: A Pictorial History (Dallas, TX: Taylor Publishing Company, 1994)
   

4. Lucius G. Fishburne, Plantation Notes, St. Bartholomew's Parish, 1960, held by the South Carolina Historical Society
   

5. 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. 1-4.
    Order Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of the ACE River Basin - 1860
   

6. Video of Airy Hall - Beautiful tour of the grounds of Airy Hall Plantation by Erik Olsen