Basic Information

• Location – Horseshoe Creek, a branch of the Ashepoo River, Walterboro, St. Bartholomew's Parish, Colleton County

  Follow SC 64 to Ritter Road and turn left onto Bonnie Doone Road
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – ?

  Bonnie Doone includes Ashland Plantation, Chessey Plantation, Dehon Plantation, Neyle Plantation, and Sterling Plantation.
  

• Current status – Owned by the Charleston Baptist Association, operated as a camp and conference center
  

Timeline

• 1722 – Earliest known date of existence
  

  Royal land grant given to William Hopton
  

• 1865 – Original house, outbuildings burned by Union troops
  

• 1931 – Rebuilt by New York stockbroker Alfred H. Caspary
  

  The house is built in the Georgian style and has 32 rooms, including 12 bedrooms.

Land

• Number of acres – At one time, the plantation comprised 15,000 acres. The present acreage is 131.
  

• Primary crop – Rice

  Although Sherman's troops burned the house in 1861, rice continued to be grown on the plantation until 1911. The rice fields are visible today.
  

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Bischoff, A. H. Caspary (1931), Chessey, Colcock, Dr. Theodore DeHon (1861), Delton, Eckhardt, Henry T. Ferguson (1846-1859), Fishburne, Wilmot S. Gibbes, Grace, Henderson, Sampson W. Leith, Neyle, Cotesworth Pinckney, Fishburne, Pringle, Rhett, Richmond, Paul Sanders (1931), Stokes, Wichman
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• Current mansion used in the movie Scarlett

Web Resources

• Bonnie Doone Plantation

Print Resources

• Initial references: 4, 29, 34, 48

• 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. 79-80.
  

Contact Information

• Bonnie Doone Plantation
  5878 Bonnie Doone Road
  Walterboro, SC 29488
  

  Telephone: 843-893-3396