Basic Information

• Location – North Santee River, Georgetown, Prince George Winyah Parish, Georgetown County

  Located at 494 Hopsewee Road off US 17
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – Hobsheewee

• Current status – Open to the public
  

Timeline

• 1740 – Earliest known date of existence

• 1740 – House built

  The house is a typical lowcountry rice plantation dwelling. Hopsewee is a preservation rather than restoration and has never been allowed to fall into decay. Only four families have owned it and it is very much the same as when first built.
  

Land

• Number of acres – 13,000

• Primary crop – Rice

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Beattie, John Hume (1841), Robert Hume (1762), Lucas, Thomas Lynch, Jr., Maynard, Montgomery, Watsley
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

Web Resources

• Hopsewee Plantation - Circa 1740
  

• National Register of Historic Places
  – Nomination Form - submitted on 1971 by Charles W. Snell - requires Adobe Reader
  – Photographs, architectural overview
  

• Hopsewee Plantation

Print Resources

• Initial references: 4, 22, 40, 44, 49

• 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. 673-676.
  

Contact Information

• Hopsewee Plantation
  494 Hopsewee Road
  Georgetown, SC 29440
  

  Telephone: 843-546-7891
  

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