Basic Information

• Location – Waccamaw River, Georgetown, All Saints Waccamaw Parish, Georgetown County

  Located off US 17 on Arcadia Plantation Drive
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – ?

• Current status – Privately owned

Timeline

• 1906 – Dr. Isaac Emerson began buying property on the Waccamaw Neck. He called his property Arcadia which eventually consisted of seven former rice plantations. Therefore, Arcadia was never a plantation.
  

  Between 1906 and 1925 Dr. Emerson purchased the following plantations:
  

  Prospect Hill	Rose Hill
  Oak Hill	Clifton
  Forlorn Hope	Bannockburn

• 1931 – Dr. Emerson left his property to his grandson, George Vanderbilt.
  

• 1936 – Elizabeth Deas Allston sold Fairfield Plantation to George Vanderbilt.
  

• 2006 – The property is owned by Lucille Pate, daughter of George Vanderbilt.
  

Land

• Number of acres – ?

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Dr. Isaac Emerson; Lucille Pate; George Vanderbilt
  

Buildings

• The plantation house from Prospect Hill is where the current owners live. Over the years they have added onto the antebellum home.
  

Web Resources

• National Register of Historic Places
  – Nomination Form - submitted in 1977 by Kappy McNulty and Kathy Hendrix - requires Adobe Reader
  – Photographs, architectural overview
  

Print Resources

• Initial references: 1, 4, 5

• William P. Baldwin, Jr., Plantations of the Low Country: South Carolina 1697-1865 (Greensboro, NC: Legacy Publications, 1987).
  

• Alberta Morel Lachicotte, Georgetown Rice Plantations (Columbia, SC: The State Printing Company, 1955).
  

• Suzanne Cameron Linder and Marta Leslie Thacker (with preliminary research by Agnes Leland Baldwin), Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of Georgetown County and the Santee River (Columbia: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 2001).
  

• Catherine Campani Messmer, South Carolina's Low Country: a past preserved (Orangeburg, SC: Sandlapper Pub., 1988).
  

• George C. Rogers, Jr., The History of Georgetown County, South Carolina (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1970).
  

More about Georgetown County

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