Arcadia Plantation - Georgetown Georgetown County South Carolina SC

Arcadia Plantation – Georgetown – Georgetown County

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
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).

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