Bluff-Wayne Plantation – Edisto River – Colleton County

Basic Information

• Location – Edisto River, St. Bartholomew's Parish, Colleton County

  Off Combahee Road
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – Bluff, Wayne, Pon Pon

• Current status – ?
  

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

  There is no evidence of a residence at Bluff.
  

• ? – William Elliott owned Bluff Plantation (1, p. 575)
  

• ? – Ann Elliott Morris inherited the plantation from her parents. Her father, William Elliott, died in 1766 (1, p. 575)
  

• 1850 – A public auction was held to sell property owned by Ann Elliott Morris (1, p. 575)
  

• 1887 – Adele Allston VanderHorst sold the Bluff to Julia and Herman Bischoff.
  

• 1918 – The Bischoff family sold the plantation to Pon Pon Realty Company.
  

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

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

• 2014 – George Dean Johnson still owned Pon Pon Plantation. In this same year, Johnson'c company purchased neighboring Hope Plantation for $15 million from Ted Turner (2).
  

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – Rice

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

  We are actively seeking information on the slaves who lived and worked at this plantation. If you find a resource that might help, please fill out this form. Thank you.
  

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)
    Order Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of the ACE River Basin - 1860
   

2. Jason Ryan, So You Want to Own a S.C. Plantation? (Columbia, SC: The State, July 12, 2014)