Belfast Plantation – Allendale County

Basic Information

• Location – Allendale County

  Approximately 15 miles west of Town of Allendale, near where the Lower Three Runs Creek meets the Savannah River
  

• Origin of name – Named after Scarborough's beloved Belfast, Ireland
  

• Other names – ?

• Current status – ?

Timeline

• 1744 – Earliest known date of existence – Scarborough came to America from Belfast, Ireland and secured several small tracts of land from local owners and combined them.
  

• ? – House built

Land

• Number of acres – 6,000 in 1970

• Primary crop – ?

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Gantt (?); Judge and Mrs. H. M. Lightsey (?); Willy Morris (?); Scarborough (1744-?); Stone
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• House – ?

References & Resources

1. Brief history of Belfast Plantation - source no longer available online
   

2. Xania Lawton, Belfast Plantation, Lightsey Home, Withstands Ravages, (Charleston, SC: The News and Courier, 1957)
   

3. 30-14 Plantation File, South Carolina Historical Society
   –  Online Catalog

4. Alexania Easterling Lawton and Minnie Reeves Wilson, Allendale on the Savannah, (Bamberg, SC: Bamberg Herald Printers, 1970)