Basic Information

• Location – Waccamaw River, Murrells Inlet, All Saints Waccamaw Parish, Georgetown County
  

  Original plantation lands were located northwest of US 17 in the vicinity of Theodosia Road.
  

• Origin of name –

• Other names –

• Current status – Part of Brookgreen Gardens

Timeline

• 1711 – Earliest known date of existence

  Granted to Robert Daniell

• 1730 – House built by Joseph Allston

• 1760 – New house built by Joseph Allston

Land

• Number of acres –

• Primary crop –

Owners

• Alphabetical list – William Algernon; Joseph Allston; Joseph Alston (wife - Theodosia Burr Alston); Joseph Alston, Jr.; Mary Alston; John Ashe; Robert Daniell; Louis Claude Lachicotte; Dr. Julius A. Mood; Archer M. Huntington; Benjamin Burgh Smith and Anna Louisa Alston Smith
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves –

Buildings

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Web Resources

• National Register of Historic Places
  – Nomination form - submitted in 1978 by John Califf and Julie Burr - requires Adobe Reader
  – Photographs, architectural overview
  

Print Resources

• Initial references: 1, 14, 22, 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. 165-170.
  

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