Newton Plantation – Edisto River – Colleton County

Basic Information

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

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – ?

• Current status – The majority of the property is part of Hope Plantation.
  

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

• 1956 – Northrup R. Knox purchased Hope Plantation. At the time of purchase, properties included in the tract were Newton Plantation, Ashe Plantation, Buzzard Island, Cattell Island, Old Hope Planation, Pringle Field Plantation, Rotterdam Plantation, and West Bank Plantation plus the previously-combined properties of Baynard Plantation and Hywassee Plantation (1, p. 256).
  

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – Rice

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Loftus C. Clifford; Northrup R. Knox (1956); John McPherson
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

References & Resources

1. 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. 277-280.
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