Basic Information

• Location – Black River, Georgetown, Prince George Winyah Parish, Georgetown County

  Located on Beneventum Road off US 701
  

• Origin of name – One source says the name means "good will come to you." Another says it is loosely translated from Italian to mean "good wind." Officially, Benevento (one of the plantation's other names) is Italian for "welcome."
  

• Other names – Benevento, The Grove (1787)

• Current status – Privately owned
  

Timeline

• 1700 – Earliest known date of existence

• 1746-1756 – House built (probably by William Fyffe)

  The original house was apparently only two rooms over two, topped by a hipped roof.
  

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – Rice

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Paul Bonneau (1768), Joseph Brown (1771), James Coachman (1754), Robert Collins (1787), J. Cornelius, Drake, Eloise Dudley, William Fyffe (1756), Christopher Gadsden (1883), William Green, Elliott Waight Hazzard, William Miles Hazzard (1866), Dr. E. W. Hitchcock (1916), Huger, Keith, Fred B. Lee (1958), John Mason (1787), E. A. Mathiesson, Randy and Suzanne McClary, Joel Roberts Poinsett, Walter W. Posey, Jr., John Julius Pringle (1839), Cornelius J. Rathbourne (1931), Archibald Taylor (1787), George Trenholm
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

• National Register of Historic Places
  – Nomination form - submitted in 1988 by J. Tracy Power and Sherry Pilandy - requires Adobe Reader
  – Photographs, architectural overview
  

Print Resources

• Initial references: 1, 2, 4, 6, 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. 459-464.
  

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