Basic Information

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

• Origin of name –

• Other names – Pon Pon

• Current status – Privately owned

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• 1848 – Purchased by George A. Mathewes

• 1864 – Sold to Theodore D. Wagner

• 1886 – Bought from E. F. Hartman by Julia V. Bischoff and conveyed to Herman Bischoff
  

• 1893 – The plantation was almost wiped out of existence by the Hurricane of 1893.
  

• 1918 – The Bischoff family sold the plantation to Pon Pon Realty Company.
  

• 1929 – Pon Pon Realty Company sold to Donald Dodge. This purchase included three plantations (Village Plantation, Ashe Plantation and Bluff Plantation). He named his property Pon Pon.
  

• 2006 – The Dodge family still owns the property and uses it for recreation and hunting.
  

Land

• Number of acres – 517 in 1848

• Primary crop – Rice

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Herman Bischoff, Ann Barnett Elliott, E. F. Hartman, George A. Mathewes, Robert Press Smith, Theodore D. Wagner.
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves –

Buildings

Web Resources

Print Resources

• Initial references:

• 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. 459-462.
  

Contact Information

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