Basic Information

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

  Located off Plantersville Road on Exchange Drive
  

• Origin of name – So named because the owner received it in exchange for another piece of property
  

• Other names – Asylum

• Current status – Privately owned

Timeline

• 1822 – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

  The original old house is still standing. A portion as large as the original house has been added.
  

• 2004 – The plantation was owned by Mrs. Thomas S. Ragsdale. Conservation easements have been placed on the property to preserve the natural environment.
  

Land

• Number of acres – 1,400

• Primary crop – Rice

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Benjamin and Charles Allston (1843); Robert F. W. Allston (1853); Elizabeth C. Ford; Cleland Huger; James Louis LaBruce; Lachicotte; Davidson McDowell (1825); Moore; Pringle; Mrs. Thomas S. Ragsdale (1945); Guendalos Rice; Thomas G. Samworth; Francis Weston; Francis Weston; Robert Weston (1837); Benjamin and Charleston Waites (1869); Elizabeth Waites (1864); Witherspoon
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – 64

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

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Print Resources

• Initial references: 1

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

• 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. 349-354.
  

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

• Katherine H. Richardson, Pawleys Island historically speaking (Pawleys Island, SC: Pawleys Island Civic Association, 1994).
  

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

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