Rotterdam Plantation – Colleton County

Basic Information

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

  Junction of Cuckolds Creek and Combahee River
  

• Origin of name – Nathaniel Heyward gave Dutch names to several of his plantations after visiting Holland.
  

• Other names – Hope

• Current status – Part of Hope Plantation

Timeline

• 1760 – Earliest known date of existence

  Portion of royal grant to Daniel Heyward

• No house built – The plantation consisted of working fields only. James Barnwell Heyward made his home at Hamburg Plantation.
  

• 1909 – The property became part of the Combahee Corporation.
  

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

Land

• Number of acres – 710

• Primary crop – Rice

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Combahee Corporation (1909); Daniel Heyward (1760); James Barnwell Heyward; Nathaniel Heyward; Thomas Heyward; Northrup R. Knox (1956)
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – 137

Buildings

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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)
    Order Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of the ACE River Basin - 1860
   

2. Claude Henry Neuffer, editor, Names in South Carolina, Volume I through 30 (Columbia, SC: The State Printing Company)
    Order Names in South Carolina, Volumes I-XII, 1954-1965
    Order Names in South Carolina, Index XIII-XVIII
   

3. Sankofa's Plantation Data Collection