Evergreen Plantation – Springfield – Aiken County

Basic Information

• Location – Edisto River, Springfield, Aiken County

  SC Highway 4

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – Hopewell (1)
  

• Current status – ?

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

• ? – John Gabriel Guignard owned the plantation (1).
  

• ? – John Gabriel Guignard gave the plantation to his son James Sanders Guignard (1).
  

• 1829 – The plantation's name was changed from Hopewell to Evergreen (1).
  

• ? – James Sanders Guignard gave Evergreen Plantation to his son John Gabriel Guignard II (1).
  

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – ?

• A slave cemetery is located near SC Highway 4 (1).
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

References & Resources

1. Major James Sanders Guignard - contributed by Stanley Young
   

2. Information contributed by Stanley Young - many of Stanley's family members, including his great, great grandparents, are buried in the plantation's slave cemetery
   

3. Guignard Family Papers, 1742-1952 - held by South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
   

4. Arney R. Childs, Planters and Business Men: The Guignard Family of South Carolina, 1795-1930 (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1957)
    Order Planters and Business Men: The Guignard Family of South Carolina, 1795-1930