Bluford Plantation – Pineville – Berkeley County

— Bluford Plantation Circa 1975 © Library of Congress —
(Prints & Photographs Division HABS SC-236)

Basic Information

• Location – Pineville, St. Stephen's Parish, Santee River, Berkeley County

  Oakland Club Road (5)
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – Oakland Club

• Current status – Has been turned into a hunt club and is now called Oakland Club
  

— Bluford Plantation Mantel Circa 1975 © Library of Congress —
(Prints & Photographs Division HABS SC-236)

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

• Late 1700s – Bluford Plantation was owned by Philip Williams (2, p. 205).
  

• ? – Peter Sinkler purchased Bluford Plantation from Philip Williams (2, p. 205) (6).
  

• ? – Peter Sinkler willed the plantation to his son, also named Peter Sinkler (II) (6).
  

• ? – Peter Sinkler II died childless and either left the plantation to his sister Elizabeth Sinkler Dubose or her son William Dubose (2, p. 205, 231) (4) (6).
  

• ? – Julius Dubose, William's nephew, was the next owner of Bluford Plantation (6).
  

• Early 1800s – The house pictured was constructed (3).
  

• 1903 – Bluford Plantation was purchased, developed into a hunt club and renamed Oakland Club. Apparently, another house was constructed for the hunt club about 1905 (5).
  

• 2003 – The Oakland Club increased the size of their hunt club by purchasing neighboring Tower Hill Plantation which consisted of 1,600 acres along with several buildings, including the plantation's main house (7).
  

• 2006 – The Oakland Club subdivided their land holdings keeping 816 acres for hunting. The land along the Santee River was sold for timber to Sunoco. 24 acres, which included the house of Tower Hill, was split-off to once again be the stand-alone Tower Hill Plantation. The Tower Hill tract was sold in 2008 (7).
  

Land

• Number of acres – 816 in 2006 (7)

• Primary crop – ?

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Dubose; Robert L. Montague; Oakland Club; Robert P. Tucker; Peter Sinkler; Philip Williams
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

References & Resources

1. 30-15 Plantation File, held by the South Carolina Historical Society
   –  Research Guide
   

2. J. Russell Cross, Historic Ramblin's through Berkeley (Columbia, SC: R.L. Bryan Company, 1985)
    Order Historic Ramblin's through Berkeley
   

3. Library of Congress File - HABS SC-236

4. Bluford's Plantation, Dubose Plantation

5. Roots and Recall - Oakland Club or Bluford Plantation

6. Francis Marion and Isaac DuBosc (DuBose) Families Forum

7. Warner M. Montgomery, Ph.D., Pineville, a historic refuge - Tower Hill Plantation (Columbia, SC: Columbia Star, January 25, 2008).