Hamburg Plantation – Combahee River – Colleton County

Basic Information

• Location – Cuckolds Creek (a branch of the Combahee River), St. Bartholomew's Parish, Colleton County

• Origin of name – Nathaniel Heyward gave Dutch names to several of his plantations after visiting Holland.
  

• Other names – Longview, Combahee

• Current status – Privately owned

Timeline

• 1764 – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – Rice

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Combahee Corporation (1915), James Barnwell Heyward, Nathaniel Heyward, Hugh C. Lane (1946), Thomas McTeer (1975), Alexander and Jacqueline Moore (1985), Norman
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – 331 (owned by James Barnwell Heyward in 1860)
  

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

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Print Resources

• Initial references:

• Suzanne Cameron Linder, Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of the ACE River Basin – 1860 (Columbia: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 1995), pp. 221-225.