Bear Island Plantation – Ashepoo River – Colleton County

Basic Information

• Location – Ashepoo River, St. Bartholomew's Parish, ACE Basin, Colleton County

  Original property was bounded to the south by Mosquito Creek, Musselboro Creek, and Crooked Creek, to the west by the Ashepoo River, and to the east by the South Edisto River
  

• Origin of Name – ?

• Other names – Bare Island

• Current status – Open to the public, part of the ACE Basin National Wildlife Refuge
  

Timeline

• 1760s – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – Rice

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Barker, Elliott, Hanahan, Matthewes

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

• ?

Print 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
  

• Lucius G. Fishburne, Plantation Notes, St. Bartholomew's Parish, 1960, held by the South Carolina Historical Society
  

• 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. 45-48.
   Order Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of the ACE River Basin - 1860