Cypress Plantation – Combahee River – Colleton County

Basic Information

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

  Original property located on both sides of US 17 where it crosses the Combahee River
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – ?

• Current status – Privately owned

Timeline

• 1836 – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

Land

• Number of acres – 243

• Primary crop – Rice

Owners

• Alphabetical list – J.B. Bissell, Chassereau, William Cruger Heyward, William Heyward, E.F. Hutton, Lightsey, Theodore D. Ravenel, Cleveland Sanders, Paul Sanders, L.D. Simonds, Payne Whitney
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – 235

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

• ?

Print Resources

• 30-15 Plantation File, 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. 159-160.
   Order Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of the ACE River Basin - 1860