Spring Grove Plantation – Bonneau – Berkeley County

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Basic Information

• Location – Back River, Bonneau, Berkeley County

  Off Cypress Gardens Road, 2 miles due east of the town of Bonneau, on the western side of Wadboo Swamp (2, p. 213) (6)
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – Dockton (6)

• Current status – Residential housing development call Spring Grove (6).
  

Timeline

• 1706 – Earliest known date of existence (6)

  Land grant from the Lords Proprietors to John Barnwell (6)
  

• ? – House built

• 1727 – Joseph Wragg owned the property as part of his Dockton Plantation (6).
  

• 1790 – René Peyre owned Spring Grove Plantation (5, p. 205).
  

• 1793 – George Keckley had acquired a piece of Dockton and called his 1,406 acre plantation Spring Grove (6).
  

• 1843 – William Bell purchased the plantation from the Keckley family. Bell also owned nearby Cypress Grove Plantation and Pine Grove Plantation (6).
  

• ? – William Bell's son acquired the plantation.
  

• 1860s – William Bell's son sold Spring Grove shortly after the Civil War (6).
  

• ? – The E.P. Burton Lumber Company acquired Spring Grove Plantation (6).
  

• ? – The Cooper River Mining & Manufacture Company was the plantation's next owner (6).
  

• 1905 – Spring Grove Plantation was purchased by Pine Grove Hunting headed by E.W. Durant (3, p. 72).
  

• Circa 1929 – The plantation was sold to a group of four men - Clarence Chapman, Mr. Frank, G.D.B. Bonbright, and Mr. Spears (3, p. 72).
  

• 2003 – Pendley Homes owned the property and subdivided it for development as a housing complex (6).
  

Land

• Number of acres – 1,406 in 1793 (6)

• Primary crop – Rice (6)

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

References & Resources

1. Virginia Christian Beach, Medway (Charleston, SC: Wyrick and Company, 1998)
   
   

2. Claude Henry Neuffer, editor, Names in South Carolina, Volume I through 30 (Columbia, SC: The State Printing Company)
    Order Names in South Carolina, Volumes I-XII, 1954-1965
    Order Names in South Carolina, Index XIII-XVIII
   

3. John Beaufain Irving, A Day on Cooper River (1842) (Whitefish, MT: Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010)
   
   

4. Catherine Campart Messmer, South Carolina's Low Country - A Past Preserved Text (Orangeburg, SC: Sandlapper Publishing, 1988)

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

6. Information contributed by Gazie Nagle including details from historical marker erected in 2008.