Basic Information

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

  Located off Plantersville Road north of Hasty Point Drive
  

• Origin of name – John Harleston Read II named the plantation after a school he attended in Vevey, Switzerland. Belle Rive means "beautiful shore" in French.
  

• Other names – Smerden

• Current status – Privately owned

Timeline

• 1732 – Earliest known date of existence

  Charles Hart transferred the plantation to William Waites. Waites combined it with Hasty Point.
  

• 1761 – John Postell purchased the property.
  

• 1793 – John Postell divided the property and sold his tract to Elias Smerden.
  

Land

• Number of acres – 500

• Primary crop – Rice

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Glanz; Gloude; Charles Hart; Jesse Metcalf; John Postell; Read; Richardson; Elias Smerden; William Waites
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves –

Buildings

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Web Resources

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Print Resources

• Initial references: 4

• 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. 373-376.
  

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

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