Basic Information

• Location – Kingston Lake (a tributary of the Waccamaw River), Conway, Horry County
  

  Original plantation lands were located slightly north of the town of Conway and west of SC 905
  

• Origin of name – Named for the owner
  

• Other names – Snow's Landing

• Current status – Part of the property is privately owned. The rest has been subdivided into residential lots making up the Snow Hill section of Conway.
  

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• 1850 – A plantation house was built about this time.
  

• 1862 – Plowden C.J. Weston purchased the plantation as a refuge for his family. They fled their residence at Hagley Plantation during the invasion of Union troops.
  

• 1880 – The house was moved to a nearby location. A new, larger house was built on Snow Hill by F.G. Burroughs.
  

Land

• Number of acres –

• Primary crop –

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Barnhill; Adeline Cooper Burroughs; Donald M. Burroughs; Edgerton Burroughs; Franklin Gorham Burroughs ; James Burroughs; William Gregg; Ben Hazzard; Hal B. and Margaret M. Holmes; Snow; Plowden C.J. Weston
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – 40 in 1862
  

Buildings

• Slave cabins – There were seven slave cottages in 1862.
  

• Other buildings included a gristmill, cotton gin, stables, and dairy.
  

Web Resources

• Excerpt from An Errand to the South in the Summer of 1862 - requires Adobe Reader
  

• Online book of An Errand to the South in the Summer of 1862
  

Print Resources

• Catherine H. Lewis, Horry County, South Carolina, 1730-1993 (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1998).
  

Contact Information

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