Basic Information

• Location – Black River, Georgetown, Georgetown County

  Located southeast of US 701 in the vicinity of Keithfield Drive
  

• Origin of name – Named for John Keith, an early owner
  

• Other names – ?

• Current status – ?

Timeline

• 1686 – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

Land

• Number of acres – 2,648

• Primary crop – Rice

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Solomon Clarke Anderson; John P. Hazzard; John Keith; Philip Johnston Porcher; James Heyward Trapier
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – 384

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

• National Register of Historic Places
  – Nomination Form - submitted in 1987 by J. Tracy Power - requires Adobe Reader
  – Photographs, architectural overview
  

Print Resources

• Initial references: 40

• 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. 446-450.
  

Contact Information

• Telephone: ?

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