Springfield Plantation – Edisto River – Colleton County

Basic Information

• Location – Edisto River, St. Bartholomew's Parish, ACE Basin National Wildlife Refuge, Colleton County

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – ?

• Current status – In 1917 Springfield Realty Company purchased Springfield. Last known, it became part of Bear Island Wildlife Management Area which is owned by the South Carolina Department of National Resources.
  

Timeline

• 1850 – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

Land

• Number of acres – 394.75

• Primary crop – Rice

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Major Theodore Barker (1880), J. Frank Mathewes, Ann Morris, South Carolina Department of National Resources, Springfield Realty Company
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

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Print Resources

• 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. 575-578.
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