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Board House Plantation – Yemassee – Colleton County
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
Land
- Number of acres – 11,000 (1860); 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 – 559 in 1860 when Board House was still owned by the Blake Family (Contributed by Jillian Olson)
Buildings
Web Resources
- Million-Dollar Grits - 2000 Forbes article gives a glimpse into the exclusive present-day Cherokee Plantation
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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