Basic Information

• Location – Combahee River, Yemassee, St Bartholomew's Parish, Colleton County
  

• Origin of name – Renamed Cherokee in 1930 (after the South's wild Cherokee Rose)
  

• Other names – Blake Place, Cherokee
  

• Current status – Exclusive hunting preserve and golf community, limited to 25 members
  

• Comments – The Jeep Cherokee is named for this plantation. Former owner, Robert Beverly Evans, was the head of American Motors.
  

Timeline

• 1690 – Earliest known date of existence
  

  Part of land grant to Joseph Blake
  

• 1710 – Original house built (named The Boardhouse)
  

  The main house and outbuildings were destroyed by fire during the Civil War.
  

• 1930 – Caroline and W.R. Coe purchased Cherokee from the Blake family.
  

• 1931 – Current house built (picture)
  

Land

• Number of acres – 11,000 (1930); approximately 7,000 (present-day)
  

• Primary crop – Rice

• Grounds designed by Frederick Law Olmsted (landscape architect who also designed the Biltmore Estate in Asheville and Central Park in New York City).
  

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Daniel Blake, Joseph Blake, Caroline and W.R. Coe, Robert Beverly Evans, Robert L. Huffines, Jr. (President of Burlington Industries and Director of ABC Television), J. Randolph Updyke, Williams Furniture Company
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves –

Buildings

Web Resources

• Cherokee Plantation: Classic Themes in the Deep South - candid article on present-day golf course community
  

Print Resources

• Initial references: 1, 18, 34, 44

• Jane N. Iseley. Lowcountry Plantations Today. Greensboro, NC: Legacy Publications, 2002.
  

• Suzanne Cameron Linder, Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of the ACE River Basin – 1860 (Columbia: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 1995), pp. 69-73.
  

Contact Information

• Cherokee Plantation
  5109 Combahee Road
  Yemassee, SC 29945
  

  Telephone: 843-844-8000
  

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