Means Plantation – Ashepoo River – Colleton County

Basic Information

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

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – Shifnal

• Current status – Has been incorporated into Lavington Plantation
  

Timeline

• 1762 – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

Land

• Number of acres – 1,415

• Primary crop – Rice

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Boone, Halsey, Hollins, Hutchenson, Jeffords, Maybank, Means, Moultrie, Padgett, Weekes, Whitte
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

• ?

Print Resources

• Initial references: 21, 34

• 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. 333-335.