Basic Information

• Location – Black River, Georgetown County

• Origin of name –

• Other names – ?

• Current status – Privately owned

Timeline

• 1735 – Earliest known date of existence

  William Saxby received a land grant.
  

• 1777 – Paul Lepear was in possession of the plantation which consisted of 1,000 acres. He divided the acreage and sold half to Stephen Ford.
  

• 1934 – Walker Inman was the owner at this time. He had several buildings constructed on the plantation - various farm buildings, a superintendent's house, and servants quarters.
  

  The house and buildings were designed by Marion Sims Wyeth, of the New York and Palm Beach firm of Wyeth and King.
  

• 1946 – Campfield became part of Greenfield.
  

Land

• Number of acres – 1,000 in 1777

• Primary crop – ?

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Vick Deer and Russell Bauknight; Hunter Glover; Walker J. Inman; Walter Inman, Jr.; Paul Lepear; John Julius Pringle; William Saxby; Thomas Shubrick's; J. William Skinner; Oliver Brightman Skinner
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – 46

Buildings

Web Resources

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Print Resources

• 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 or 2002), pp. 473-476.
  

Contact Information

• Telephone: ?

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