Exchange Plantation - Plantersville Georgetown County South Carolina SC


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Exchange Plantation – Plantersville – Georgetown County

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
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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