Basic Information

• Location – North Santee River, Georgetown, Georgetown County

  Plantation lands are bordered by US 17/701, SC Secondary Road 24 (Powell Road), and the North Santee River.
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – ?

• Current status – ?

Timeline

• 1705 – Earliest known date of existence when John Sauseau, a French Huguenot settler, received a grant from the Lords Proprietors (Historical Marker).
  

  The property changed hands several times. Among these owners were members of the Buchanan and Withers families (Historical Marker).
  

• 1783 – Isaac and William Mazyck acquired a tract of over 1,000 acres and began growing rice (Historical Marker).
  

• ? – House built

Land

• Number of acres – Over 1,000 in 1783 (Historical Marker)

• Primary crop – Rice (Historical Marker)

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Buchanan, Isaac and William Mazyck (1783-?), John Sauseau (1705-?), Withers
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

• SC Highway Historical Marker Guide - online database by the SC Department of Archives & History
  

Print Resources

• 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

More about Georgetown County

• Learn more about historic Georgetown County, including the lovely town of Georgetown SC. We have helpful guides to Georgetown SC history and Georgetown SC libraries and museums – plus Georgetown SC restaurants, Georgetown SC bed & breakfasts, Georgetown SC hotels, and Georgetown SC real estate.