Mont Arena Plantation - Sandy Island Georgetown County South Carolina SC

Mont Arena Plantation – Sandy Island – Georgetown County



Basic Information

  • Location – Waccamaw River, Sandy Island, All Saints Waccamaw Parish, Georgetown County

    Original plantation lands were located on the southern part of Sandy Island almost directly across from Brookgreen Gardens.

  • Origin of name – A literal translation of Mont Arena is "sand mountain." Sandy Island, where the plantation was located, was all sand except for the marsh land around the edges of the island.

  • Other names – ?

  • Current status – The island has remained undeveloped except for descendants of freed slaves that still live there. Accessible only by boat.

Timeline

  • 1732 – Earliest known date of existence

  • ? – House built

Land

  • Number of acres – 538

  • Primary crop – Rice

Owners

  • Alphabetical list – Allston; Heriot; Thomas; Waring; Washington; Withers

Slaves

  • Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

Web Resources

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), pp. 217-220



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