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Cedar Tree Plantation – Ridgeway – Fairfield County
Basic Information
Timeline
Land
- Colonel Dunbar, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, is buried in a cemetery near the house (3, p. 4).
- Number of acres – ?
- Primary crop – ?
Owners
- Alphabetical list – Thomas Leonel Bulow (1866-1915); DesPortes; Dr. John Davis Palmer (1853-?); Elizabeth Hawley Gasque Van Exem (1965)
Slaves
Buildings
- Many of the original outbuildings are still in use. The smokehouse, kitchen, washhouse, and the old farm bell that was used to call the plantation hands to work and meals are still a part of the place (3, p. 4).
References & Resources
- 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
- Information contributed by Cyndi Shull from:
S.A. Cunningham, Confederate Veteran, Volume 23 (Self Published, 1915), p. 469
- Information contributed by Cyndi Shull from:
Fairfield Genealogical Society June 1999 Newsletter - PDF
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