Basic Information

• Location – Submerged by Lake Moultrie, Orangeburg County
  

• Origin of name –

• Other names –

• Current status – In 1939, work began on the Santee Cooper Hydroelectric and Navigation Project. This project displaced many families and communities, and many historic homes were lost as the area was flooded.
  

Timeline

• Earliest known date of existence –

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Land

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Owners

• Alphabetical list – Edward Edwards; Kirk; Colonel Robert Mckelvey
  

Slaves

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Buildings

Web Resources

• Fountain Head Plantation - a brief summary of the owners (scroll down menu at left)
  

Print Resources

• J. Russell Cross, Historic Ramblin's Through Berkeley (Columbia, SC: R.L. Bryan Company, 1985).
  

• Lesley M. Drucker and Ronald W. Anthony. The Spiers Landing Site: Archaeological Investigations in Orangeburg County, South Carolina. Resource Studies Series 10, Carolina Archaeological Services, Columbia, 1979.
  

• Lesley M. Drucker. Socioeconomic Patterning at an Undocumented Late 18th Century Site: Spiers Landing, South Carolina. Historical Archaeology 15 (2) 1981: 58-68.
  

• Claude Henry Neuffer (editor), Names in South Carolina, 1943-1983 (Columbia, SC: The State Printing Company).
  

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