Basic Information

• Location – Pee Dee River, Georgetown, Prince George Winyah Parish, Georgetown County

  Located east of US 701 off Plantersville Road on Arundel Avenue
  

• Origin of name – Said to have been named after Arundel Castle on the Arun River in Sussex, England.
  

• Other names – ?

• Current status – Privately owned

Timeline

• 1717 – Earliest known date of existence

• 1717 – House built

• 2005 – On October 4, 2005, all of the acres of Arundel Plantation were placed under conservation easement and recorded by Georgetown County. Alex Quattlebaum was the owner at this time.
  

Land

• Number of acres – 1,140

• Primary crop – Rice

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Allison; LaBruce; Lachicotte; Pringle; Alex Quattlebaum; Shaffer
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• Slave houses, a plantation house and a 500-year-old live oak.
  

Web Resources

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Print Resources

• Initial references: 1, 2, 5, 40

• (The Post and Courier, Monday, November 7, 2005, 3B).
  

• 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), pp. 307-310.
  

Contact Information

• Telephone: ?

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