— Arundel Plantation 1966 © Library of Congress —
— Prints & Photographs Division HABS SC,22-GEOTO.V,11A-10 —

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

— Arundel Plantation © Brandon Coffey —

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.
  

— Arundel Plantation House © Brandon Coffey —

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

• ?

Print Resources

• 30-15 Plantation File, held by the South Carolina Historical Society

• William P. Baldwin Jr., Plantations of the Low County: South Carolina 1697-1865 (Westbrook, ME: Legacy Publishing, 1994)
   Order Plantations of the Low County: South Carolina 1697-1865
  

• 30-14 Plantation File, South Carolina Historical Society
  –  Online Catalog

• George C. Rodgers, Jr., The History of Georgetown County, South Carolina (Spartanburg, SC: Reprint Company, 1990)
   Order The History of Georgetown County, South Carolina

• Article appearing in The Post and Courier, Monday, November 7, 2005, 3B
  

• Suzanne Cameron Linder and Marta Leslie Thacker, Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of Georgetown County and the Santee River (Columbia, SC: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 2001)
   Order Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of Georgetown County and the Santee River

More about Georgetown County

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