Pond Bluff Plantation – Fort Motte – Calhoun County

Basic Information

• Location – Fort Motte, St. Matthews Parish, Calhoun County

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – Healthy Grove, Can't Hill

• Current status – ?

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

• ? – Margaret Cantey Thomson and her sister, Anna S. Thomson, inherited the plantation.
  

• 1835 – Margaret and her husband, Artemus Thomson Darby, filed for a partition of the estate. Dr. Thomas J. Goodwyn, trustee for the Darbys, purchased the plantation for $12,550 ( Culler, pp. 372-373 ).
  

• 1878 – Artemus Thomson Darby died at Pond Bluff.
  

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – ?

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Artemus Thomson and Margaret Cantey Darby, Margaret Cantey and Anna S. Thomson
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

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Print Resources

• 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
  

• Daniel Marchant Culler, Orangeburgh District, 1768-1868: History and Records (Spartanburg, SC: The Reprint Company, 1995)
   Order Orangeburgh District, 1768-1868: History and Records