Basic Information

• Location – Jasper County

  Inverary Plantation was originally in Beaufort County but now lies inside the limits of Jasper County after lines were redrawn in the early 1900s.
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – Upper Delta

• Current status – Became part of Delta Plantation

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

• 1829 – Langdon Cheves purchased Inverary, which he renamed Upper Delta (Northern Money Southern Land, p. 140).
  

Land

• Number of acres – 1,250 in 1829

• Primary crop – Rice (Northern Money Southern Land, p. 139)
  

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Langdon Cheves

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

• ?

Print Resources

• Lawrence S. Rowland, Alexander Moore, and George C. Rodgers, Jr. The History of Beaufort County, South Carolina: Volume 1, 1514-1861 (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1996)
   Order The History of Beaufort County, South Carolina: Volume 1, 1514-1861

• Robert B. Cuthbert and Stephen G. Hoffius, editors, Northern Money, Southern Land: The Lowcountry Plantation Sketches of Chlotilde R. Martin (Columbia, SC: The University of South Carolina Press, 2009)