Egypt Plantation – – Berkeley County

Basic Information

• Location – St James Santee Parish, Berkeley County
  

• Origin of name – Dr. Samuel Cordes named the place Egypt because he had a really good crop of corn one year which so surpirsed and delighted him "that he named his plantation 'Egypt' where, as he said, his brethren could come and get provender" (Bridges & Williams, p. 186).
  

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Timeline

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Land

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Owners

• Alphabetical list – Dr. Samuel Cordes
  

Slaves

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Buildings

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Web Resources

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Print Resources

• Anne Baker Leland Bridges and Roy Williams III, St James Santee Plantation Parish History and Records, 1685-1925, (Spartanburg, SC: The Reprint Company, Publishers, 1997).