Rock Spring Plantation – Round O – Colleton County

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Basic Information

• Location – Round O, Fuller Swamp, Colleton County

• Origin of name – For the natural limestone spring located on the property (1)

• Other names – ?

• Current status – Privately owned (2026) (1)

Timeline

• Circa 1740 – Earliest known date of existence (1)

  John Lemacks received a Kings Grant

• ? – House built

• ? – The plantation passed from John Lemacks to son John (II) Lemacks and wife, Eliza Hayne Lemacks (1)

• ? – John (II) and Eliza Lemacks' son Charles Hayne Lemacks was Rock Spring Plantation's next owner (1)

• ? – John Jones Lemacks (who served as Sheriff of Colleton County) and his wife, Harriet Mary Walter Lemacks (whose father was the founder of Walterboro) inherited the plantation (1)

• 1887 – Johann Diedreich von Lehe purchased the plantation from the Lemacks (1)

• 1930s – Diedreich Petermann von Lehe, Johann's son, became owner of the plantation (1)

Land

• Number of acres – 920 in 1857; 600 in 2000 (1)

• Primary crop – Rice and cotton (1)

Owners

• Chornological list – Lemacks circa 1740 - 1887; von Lehe 1887 - present, 2026) (1)

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• None of the original buildings exist (1)

References & Resources

1. Information contributed.