Basic Information

• Location – Wedgefield, St Mark's Parish, Sumter County
  

  Located across from Poinsett State Park off SC 261 in the High Hills section
  

• Origin of name –

• Other names – Millpond, Colonel William Richardson Place
  

• Current status –

Timeline

• 1773 – Earliest known date of existence
  

• ? – House built

• ? – Bloomhill was used as a camp site for Francis Marion and his men on at least one occasion. Governor John Rutledge established headquarters here upon the fall of Charleston (Nicholes).
  

• ? – The plantation passed out of the Richardson family and became the propery of John Owen, an Englishman (Neuffer, bk. 3, vol. 20, p. 5).
  

  There was a mill on the plantation which John Owen operated until he died. The mill was sold to a Mr. Christmas who continued to operate the mill. Eventually, the mill was abondoned and fell into disrepair (Neuffer, bk. 3, vol. 20, p. 5).
  

Land

• Number of acres – 8,000

• Primary crop – Rice

• The Richardson family graveyard is located on this plantation. A servant, Davy, is buried on the west end of the graveyard. His marble tombstone bears the inscription "faithful Davy".
  

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Hampton; Manning; John Owen; Colonel William Richardson; John Smythe Richardson
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves –

Buildings

Web Resources

• John Smythe Richardson

Print Resources

• Initial references: 1, 26

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

• Cassie Nicholes, Historical Sketches of Sumter County: Its Birth and Growth (Sumter, SC: Sumter County Historical Commission, 1975).
  

• Josie Platt Parler, The Past Blows By: On the Road to Poinsett Park (Sumter, SC: Knight Brothers, Inc., 1939).
  

Contact Information

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