Ashe Plantation – Edisto River – Colleton County

Basic Information

• Location – Hope Creek (a branch of the Edisto River), St. Bartholomew's Parish, ACE Basin, Colleton County

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – Ash, Pon Pon

• Current status – Privately owned

Timeline

• 1711 – Earliest known date of existence

• 1711 – Owned by Joseph Ashe

• 1790 – Willed to Richard Cochran Ashe

• 1918 – Bischoff heirs sold to Pon Pon Realty Company

• 1929 – Pon Pon Realty Company sold to Donald Dodge. This purchase included three plantations (Ashe Plantation, Bluff Plantation and Village Plantation). He named his property Pon Pon.
  

• Circa 1997 – The Dodge family sold the combined three plantations to George Dean Johnson.
  

Land

• Number of acres – 500 in 1790

• Primary crop – Rice

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Joseph Ashe (1711-?), Richard Cochran Ashe (1790-?), Bischoff (?-1918), Donald Dodge (1929-?), Dodge Family (?-circa 1997), George Dean Johnson (circa 1997-?), Pon Pon Realty Company (1918-1929), Whaley
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – 68 (Joseph Ashe)

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

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Print Resources

• Suzanne Cameron Linder, Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of the ACE River Basin - 1860 (Columbia, SC: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 1995), pp. 459-462.
   Order Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of the ACE River Basin - 1860