Laurel Springs Plantation – White Hall – Colleton County

Basic Information

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

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – Rawlins Lowndes

• Current status – Oakland and Rose Hill are now a part of this plantation.
  

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

• ? – House burned

  In 1934 a rambling frame house was built to replace the one that had burned.
  

Land

• Number of acres – 2,000

• Primary crop – Rice

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Adgar, Edward Frances Hutton (1927), Oswald and Norris Lightsey (1942), Charles Tidyman Lowndes, James Lynah, Nowell, Theodore D. Ravenel
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

  In 1931 Daddy Scipio still lived on the plantation.
  

  There is a row of old slave cabins called "the street".
  

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

• ?

Print Resources

• 30-15 Plantation File, held by the South Carolina Historical Society

• Margaret F. Kemp, Colleton County, South Carolina: A Pictorial History (Dallas, TX: Taylor Publishing Company, 1994)
  

• 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. 395-403.
   Order Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of the ACE River Basin - 1860