Photograph by Mrs. Johnie Rivers of Charleston

Basic Information

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

  12 miles northeast of Georgetown on County Road 52

• Origin of name –

• Other names – Matanza (until 1853)

• Current status – Privately owned

Timeline

• 1809 – Earliest known date of existence

• 1819 – House built sometime before this year

• 1838 – House remodeled by Robert Francis Withers Allston

• 1853 – The Allstons changed the name of Matanza to Chicora Wood.
  

• 1984 – House purchased by Jamie W. and Heather Constance whom immediately began a major two and a half year restoration.
  

Land

• Number of acres – 1,400

• Primary crop – Rice

• Primary crop today – Grass turf

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Robert Francis Withers Allston; Andrews; Jamie W. and Heather Constance (1894-Present); Pringle; Rose; Simons; Torrens; Waddell; Waring; Young
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – 600

Buildings

• Plantation house – Photograph, 2003

Web Resources

• National Register of Historic Places
  – Nomination Form - submitted in 1972 by Nancy Ruhf - requires Adobe Reader
  – Photographs, architectural overview - accompanied 1972 National Register submission
  

Print Resources

• Initial references: 1, 4

• William P. Baldwin, Jr., Plantations of the Low Country: South Carolina 1697-1865 (Greensboro, NC: Legacy Publications, 1987).
  

• J.H. Easterby, Professor of History, College of Charleston, Editor, The South Carolina Rice Plantation As Revealed In The Papers Of Robert Francis Withers Allston (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2004).
  

• 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. 335-340.
  

• Catherine Campani Messmer, South Carolina's Low Country: a past preserved (Orangeburg, SC: Sandlapper Pub., 1988).
  

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

Notes

• South Carolina Plantations extends a special thanks to Mr. Jamie W. Constance for his invaluable assistance verifying and contributing to the information on this page and for being a faithful guardian of Chicora Wood.
  

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