Basic Information

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

  Original plantation lands were located off US 17 and north of Brookgreen Gardens.
  

• Origin of name –

• Other names – Wittecaw, The Spring

• Current status – Part of Brookgreen Gardens

Timeline

• 1717 – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

Land

• Number of acres –

• Primary crop – Rice

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Allston; Flagg; Hasell; Marion; Ward; Weston; Willet; Withers
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves –

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

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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. 181-186.
  

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