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White Hill Plantation – Orangeburg – Orangeburg County
Basic Information
Timeline
- 1799 – Dr. Van De Vastine Jamison owned White Hill Plantation.
Dr. Jamison was born on March 24, 1765 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He was in South Carolina by 1792 and was counted in the 1790 Census. He was listed as the only person in his household - unmarried and owning no slaves (Neuffer, bk. 2, vol. 13, p. 53).
On January 22, 1799 he married Elizabeth Rumph. They made White Hill their home (Jamison Family).
- 1809 – Dr. Van De Vastine Jamison purchased 92 acres in the vicinity of White Hill. The area was referred to as Little Bool Swamp which is probably present-day Bull Swamp. It is assumed that he added this acreage to White Hill (Jamison Family).
- 1810 – Dr. Van De Vastine Jamison did not like the fact that a public road ran directly through his property. He petitioned the legislature to alter the route (Neuffer, bk. 2, vol. 13, p. 52).
- 1814 – Elizabeth Rumph Jamison died (Jamison Family).
- 1820 – A plat shows Dr. Van de Vastine Jamison as the owner of White Hill (Culler, p. 384).
- 1825 – Dr. Jamison was harvesting the oyster shells on his property. He burned down the shells to produce lime. Lime was used in the Carolinas for building materials and for indigo making.
Robert Mills wrote of a peculiar sort of oyster shell found there which was longer than those found at the seashore. "In Dr. Jamison's plantation . . . ten hands can raise in a week as many of these oyster shells, from their bed, though seven feet below the surface as when burnt, will yield twelve hundred bushels of lime." In writing of the geology of Orangeburg District, he added: "Considerable bodies of the compact stone rock run through the district from northeast to southwest. Jamison is the only one that has attended to this rock so as to derive any advantage from quarrying and burning it. He has been for many years engaged in supplying the demands of the district for lime, both for building and for indigo making, for which it answers very well. The lime made is of an excellent quality. Dr. J. makes about 3000
bushels annually, and, could he find sale for it, could prepare ten times as much" (Neuffer, bk. 2, vol. 13, p. 53-54).
- 1833 – On February 22, Dr. Jamison released title to "White Hill plantation, all negro slaves, horses, cattle, hogs and farming utensils to John A. Tyler and Van De Vastine Samuel Jamison" (Neuffer, bk. 2, vol. 13, p. 53).
- 1836 – Dr. Jamison on December 15 at Pine Grove Plantation in St Matthews Parish. His body was brought to White Hill and buried in the family cemetery. He was 71 years old (Jamison Family).
- 1844 – On January 20, John A. Tyler and Elizabeth Tyler sold White Hill to Dr. Willis Wilkinson, a Charleston physician.
The plantation consisted of 1,395 acres. The family cemetery was excluded in the sale of the property. That tract of land was reserved for the Jamison family (Neuffer, bk. 2, vol. 13, p. 53).
- 1849 – On September 21, Dr. Willis Wilkinson sold White Hill to Dr. James Jenkins. During his ownership the plantation was known as Jenkins' Hill (Neuffer, bk. 2, vol. 13, p. 53).
- ? – The plantation house was damaged by a storm before 1900 and was subsequently deserted (Neuffer, bk. 2, vol. 13, p. 53).
Land
Owners
- Alphabetical list – Van de Vastine Jamison; Van de Vastine Samuel Jamison; Dr. James Jenkins; John A. Tyler; Dr. Willis Wilkinson
Slaves
Buildings
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