Jericho Plantation – Hampton County

Basic Information

• Location – Hampton County

  County Road 62 at the junction of County Road 194, 4.7 miles south of Lawtonville Cemetery
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – ?

• Current status – Private residence (2012). Family farms cotton and timber (3).
  

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

• 1865 – House burned by General Sherman's troops (2).
  

  Family history says the Morrisons owned Jericho Plantation at the time of the Civil War (2).
  

• 1884 – James Eggelston Morrison died of malaria at Jericho Plantation (2).
  

• 2012 – Property being used to cultivate cotton and timber (3).
  

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – ?

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Lawton; Morrison

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• House burned by Sherman

References & Resources

1. Carolina W. Todd and Sidney Wait, South Carolina: A Day at a Time (Orangeburg, SC: Sandlapper Publishing Company, 2008)
   
   

2. Information contributed by Arthur George Morrison.
   

3. Information contributed by Shannon Scott.