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Cypress Trees Plantation – Edisto Island – Charleston County
— Cypress Trees Plantation © Gazie Nagle, 2014 —(Do Not Use Without Written Consent)
Basic Information
- Location – Edisto Island, St. John's Colleton Parish, Charleston County
1895 Highway 174
- Origin of name – Named for the cypress trees found on the plantation (1, Volumes I-XII, p. 74)
- Other names – ?
- Current status – Cypress Trees is an active farm with rye, heirloom corn, and rice being grown. Also open as a wedding and special events venue (2017) (4)
Timeline
Land
- Number of acres – ?
- Primary crop – Indigo and rice in the late 1700s; cotton in the 1800s; rye, heirloom corn, and rice in modern times (2) (4)
Slaves
- Number of slaves – 69 circa 1850-1860 by Archibald Clark, Ann Clark, Margaret Wilkinson, and Susan Clark. Although slaves were document before and after this year, this was the largest slave population at any one time at Cypress Trees Plantation (3).
References & 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
- History Lessons, Cypress Trees Plantation – Click here
- Information contributed by F. Meggett from the Seventh Population Census of the United States (1850).
- Information contributed by Linda Murray, who along with her husband, became owners of the plantation in the 1990s.
Contact Information
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