Barracada Plantation – Colleton County

Basic Information

• Location – Colleton County

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – ?

• Current status – ?

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• Circa 1840 – House built (1)
  

  Oliver Perry Williams built a house using slave labor. Williams was an attorney for the City of Walterboro (1)
  

• ? – A timber company purchased the plantation (1)
  

• 1930s – The plantation house was lost to fire (1)
  

Land

• Number of acres – 1,250 acres (1)
  

• Primary crop – Rice (1)
  

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Ford (?); Oliver Perry Williams (Circa 1840-?)
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – 80 in 1860 (1)
  

Buildings

• The house built in the 1840s was two-stories with the first of brick construction and the second made of wood. There was also a second story veranda supported by columns. This house was destroyed by fire in the 1930s (1).
  

References & Resources

1. Information contributed by Gerald Greene
   

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