Basic Information

• Location – Orangeburg County

  4 miles east of Eutaw Springs

• Origin of name – There is a pond near the house which is set on a bluff of the river swamp.
  

• Other names – ?

• Current status – Partly submerged under Lake Marion

Timeline

• 1758 – Earliest known date of existence

  Granted to William Flud

• 1759 – General Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox, settles at Pond Bluff
  

• 1816 – House in which Marion lived was destroyed

• 1825 – House built by Joseph Palmer

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – ?

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Charlotte Ashby, Dwight, William Flud (1758), General Francis Marion (1773), John Matthews, Palmer, Joseph Palmer Simmons, Julia Simons, Colonel Keating Lewis Simons, Rebecca Singleton, Videau
  

  Given to Simons family by widow of General Francis Marion
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?
  

Web Resources

• ?
  

Print Resources

• Initial references: See #1, 4, 8, 19, 30