Baynard Plantation – Colleton County

Basic Information

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

  Located south of Jacksonboro and east of Hope Plantation Lane
  

• Origin of name – Named after Ephraim Mikell Baynard
  

• Other names – Rice Hope, Hope

• Current status – Part of Hope Plantation

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

• 1870s – Henry Bischoff purchased the plantation. Bischoff also purchased the neighboring properties of Hope Plantation and Hywassee Plantation. He combined all the properties into one which he then called Rice Hope Plantation (1, p. 255).
  

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – Rice

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Edward Barnwell; Ephraim Mikell Baynard; Henry Bischoff (1870s-?)
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

References & Resources

1. 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. 39-40.
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