Ravenswood Plantation – Neyles – Colleton County

Basic Information

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

  Located on SC 64 about 8 miles southeast from the City of Walterboro

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – Ravenwood

• Current status – Privately owned

Timeline

• 1800 – Earliest known date of existence

• 1840 – House built

  The house was not burned during the Civil War.
  

Land

• Number of acres – 1,025

• Primary crop – Rice

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Adams; Frank and Nina Burke (2005); Dennison; Fishburne; Ford; Hiers; Lewis; Lightsey; Middleton; George Washington Osward; Raven; Sanders; A.H. Seabrook; Tillman; Vanderhorst; Warren
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – 67 in 1840; 106 in 1860

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

• National Register of Historic Places
  – Nomination form - PDF - submitted in 1996
  – Photographs, architectural overview
  

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. 493-496
   Order Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of the ACE River Basin - 1860