Shifnal Plantation – – Colleton County

Basic Information

• Location – Colleton County

• Origin of name – The family seat was Aston Hall, located near Shifnal Parish Church in Shropshire, England.
  

• Other names – ?

• Current status – Only a graceful avenue of oaks marks the spot of the old Shifnal plantaion.
  

Timeline

• Earliest known date of existence – 1794

• House built – ?

Land

• Number of acres – 1,415

• Primary crop – ?

Owners

• Alphabetical list – George Austin, Edward B. Means, James Moultrie, Charles O. Witte (1897)
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – 85

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

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Print Resources

• Initial references: 9
  

• 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.