Skufful Farm Plantation – Mont Clare – Darlington County

Basic Information

• Location – Mont Clare, Darlington County

  3000 Flatcreek Road (2)

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – ?

• Current status – Privately owned (2)

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

• Early 1800s – Colonel Bright Williamson I owned Skufful Farm as well as other plantations in the area which included Oaklyn Plantation and Mont Clare Plantation (2, p. 24).

• ? – Colonel Bright Williamson I passed Skufful Farm Plantation to his son Benjamin Franklin (Frank) Williamson I (2, p. 24).

• ? – Campbell D. Coxe acquired the plantation (2).

• 1933 – Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Coxe Jr. owned Skufful Farm Plantation (2) (3).
  

• 1970 – Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Coxe III owned the plantation (4).
  

• 2013 – Charlie and Vicky Coxe Commander owned Skufful Farm Plantation (2).

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – ?

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

References & Resources

1. 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
   

2. Information contributed by Cyndi Shull, with some from:
   – National Register of Historic Places Oaklyn Plantation Nomination form - PDF - p. 24
   

3. Mont Clare Community Center - SCIWAY
   

4. Darlington Farm Tour Set Wednesday, (Florence, SC: The Florence Morning News, April 24, 1970), p. 8-A.
   

5. Information contributed by Cyndi Shull from:
   – Excerpt from Robert C. Clark and Tom Poland's Reflections of South Carolina - PDF - see page 3 for picture of the house