Albion Plantation – Douglass – Fairfield County

Basic Information

• Location – Near Douglass, Fairfield County

  5170 Old Douglass Road, Blackstock (2)
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – ?

• Current status – ?

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – Alexander Douglas acquired the property.
  

• Circa 1840 – House built (1, p. 1) (3) (5, XII: 50)
  

  House built by Alexander Douglas (1, p. 1) (3) (5, XII: 50).
  

• Circa 1860 – Alexander Douglas passed away and his estate was valued at $76,750 (1, p. 1).
  

• 1963 – The widow Mrs. Albert Douglas, owned Albion. Her late husband was the grandson of the plantation's founder Alexander Douglas (4, p. 198) (5, XII: 50).
  

• 1984 – John S. Douglas of North Augusta, GA was owner of record (1, p. 1).
  

• 2013 – Mrs. Marge B. Woods owned the plantation (3).
  

• 2016 – Albion Plantation was a working timber farm. It had been on the market with an asking price of $999,000 (2).
  

Land

• Number of acres – 129.81 in 2016 (2)
  

• Primary crop – ?

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

References & Resources

1. National Register of Historic Places
   – Nomination form - PDF - submitted in 1984
   – Photographs, architectural overview
   

2. Zillow Real Estate Listing - includes pictures
   

3. Roots and Recall - includes pictures
   

4. Julian Stevenson Bolick, A Fairfield Sketchbook (Jacobs Brothers, 1963)
   
   

5. 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