— Nightingale Hall Plantation © Contributed by Trish Callis Nicholson —

Basic Information

• Location – Pee Dee River, Georgetown, Prince George Winyah Parish, Georgetown County

  Located east of US 701 off Plantersville Road on Nightingale Road
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – Nightingale (Hall was added to the name in 1846)
  

• Current status – Privately owned

— Entrance to Nightingale Hall Plantation 2012 © Gazie Nagle —

Timeline

• 1730 – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

• 1846 – Robert F.W. Allston purchased the plantation from George A. Moultrie for $80,000 (1, p. 3).
  

• 1864 – Allston died and the plantation was sold with the proceeds divided among his heirs (1, p. 3).
  

• 1918 – The current house was built after the original was torn down (1, p. 3).
  

— House at Nightingale Hall Plantation © Contributed by Trish Callis Nicholson —

Land

• Number of acres – 1,200 in 1846 (1, p. 3).
  

• Primary crop – Rice

  Click here for a picture of the rice mill chimney that remains on the property.
  

— Plantation Car Ferry © Contributed by Trish Callis Nicholson —

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Robert F.W. Allston (1846-1864); Austin; LaRoche; George A. Moultrie (?-1846); Paine; Swinton; Thurston
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – 100 in 1846 (1, p. 3)
  

Buildings

• ?

— Nightingale Hall Plantation Boat © Contributed by Trish Callis Nicholson —
— The boy is the superintendent's son, Roger B. Callis —

References & Resources

1. National Register of Historic Places
   – Nomination form - PDF - submitted in 1987
   – Photographs, architectural overview
   

2. Suzanne Cameron Linder and Marta Leslie Thacker, Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of Georgetown County and the Santee River (Columbia, SC: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 2001)
    Order Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of Georgetown County and the Santee River

3. Katherine H. Richardson, Pawleys Island Historically Speaking (Pawleys Island, SC: Pawleys Island Civic Association, 1995)
    Order Pawleys Island Historically Speaking

4. George C. Rodgers, Jr., The History of Georgetown County, South Carolina (Spartanburg, SC: Reprint Company, 1990)
    Order The History of Georgetown County, South Carolina

More about Georgetown County

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