Basic Information

• Location – Sampit River, Winyah Bay, Georgetown County

• Comments –
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names –

• Current status – In 1970 William S. Johnston developed the property into a residental resort complex.
  

Timeline

• 1800 – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

• 1929 – Mrs. Henry M. Sage of Albany, New York, signed a ten year lease to Belle Isle. She bought the Mendenhall house in Newberry County and moved it to Belle Isle.
  

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – Rice

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Guignard; Horry; Johnston; Mayrant; Penniman; Saga; Smith
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – 121

Buildings

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Web Resources

Print Resources

• Initial references: 40

• Suzanne Cameron Linder and Marta Leslie Thacker, Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of Georgetown County and the Santee River (Columbia: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 2001 or 2002), pp. 561-566.
  

More about Georgetown County

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