Montgomery Plantation – McClellanville – Charleston County

Basic Information

• Location – South Santee River, McClellanville, St. James Santee Parish, Charleston County

  Located off US 17 on Rutledge Road
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – Old Field

• Current status – Privately owned
  

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

• 1868 – Alexander Mazyck (owner of the plantation) and his brother, Edward, moved to Canada because they refused to live under the United States Government following the Civil War. Other Santee planters moved to Canada as well (Bridges & Williams, p. 240).
  

• 1870 – James Doar was living on the plantation, but it is unclear if he owned the property (Bridges & Williams, p. 249).
  

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – Rice

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Alexander Mazyck

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

• ?

Print Resources

• Initial references: 40

• 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).
  

• Suzanne Cameron Linder and Marta Leslie Thacker (with preliminary research by Agnes Leland Baldwin), Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of Georgetown County and the Santee River (Columbia: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 2001), pp. 712-717.
  

Contact Information

• Telephone: ?