Lawson's Pond Plantation – Cross – Berkeley County

— Lawson's Pond Plantation © Brandon Coffey —

Basic Information

• Location – Cross, Berkeley County

  Located off SC 6 about five miles north of Cross
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – ?

• Current status – Privately owned

Timeline

• 1818 – Earliest known date of existence

• 1823 – House built

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – Cotton

Owners

• Chronological list – Charles Cordes Porcher (1818), Philip Porcher, Couturier (current)
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – 110

Buildings

• Elizabeth Simons, who grew up across the road at Loch Dhu Plantation and is a first cousin of the Couturier family says, "the carving at Lawson's Pond is the MOST beautiful and detailed carving I have ever seen."
  

Web Resources

• National Register of Historic Places
  – Nomination form - PDF - submitted in 1976
  – Photographs, architectural overview
  

Print Resources

• 30-15 Plantation File, held by the South Carolina Historical Society

• Caption on map of plantations along the Santee River in Upper St. John's Parish, SC 1865
  

• Records held by the Berkeley County Historical Society

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