Horseshoe Plantation – Neyles – Colleton County

Basic Information

• Location – Horseshoe Creek (a branch of the Ashepoo River), Neyles, St. Bartholomew's Parish, ACE Basin, Colleton County

  Located off SC 64 on Maybank Lane
  

• Origin of name – The plantation was named for its location on Horseshoe Creek
  

• Other names – Campbell, Estate Place

• Current status – ?

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

• 1869 – Sampson Leith Paul sold Horseshoe to Southern Ashepoo Phosphate Company
  

• 1994 – Westvaco Corporation purchased the property
  

Land

• Number of acres – 900

• Primary crop – Rice

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Campbell, Caspary, Fishburne, Frederick Fraser, Glover, Dr. Sampson W. Leith (1828), Rawlins Lowndes (late 1700s), William Lowndes, Sampson Leith and James Lawrence Paul (1858), Sanders, Smoak, Snipes, Verdier, Westvaco Corporation, Williams
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – 124

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

• ?

Print Resources

• 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. 263-266.
   Order Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of the ACE River Basin - 1860