Arcadia Plantation Georgetown Georgetown County
Basic Information
- Location Waccamaw River, Georgetown, All Saints Waccamaw Parish, Georgetown County
Located off US 17 on Arcadia Plantation Drive
- Origin of name ?
- Other names ?
- Current status Privately owned
Timeline
- 1906 Dr. Isaac Emerson began buying property on the Waccamaw Neck. He called his property Arcadia which eventually consisted of seven former rice plantations. Therefore, Arcadia was never a plantation (1, p. 3).
Between 1906 and 1925 Dr. Emerson purchased the following plantations:
Bannockburn
Clifton
Forlorn Hope
Oak Hill
Prospect Hill
Rose Hill
- 1931 Dr. Emerson left his property to his grandson, George Vanderbilt.
- 1936 Elizabeth Deas Allston sold Fairfield Plantation to George Vanderbilt.
- 2006 The property is owned by Lucille Pate, daughter of George Vanderbilt.
Land
- Number of acres 90 in 1977 (1, p. 9)
Buildings
- The plantation house from Prospect Hill is where the current owners live. Over the years they have added onto the antebellum home.
- There is also a guest house, stables, and bowling alley on the property which were all constructed in the early 1900s. Old structure's include tenant houses and St. Ann's antebellum African-American church (1, p. 5).
— Rear of Arcadia Plantation Main House © Stephen Tyler Lemmons, 2010 —
(Do Not Use Without Written Consent)
References & Resources
- National Register of Historic Places
Nomination form - PDF - submitted in 1977
Photographs, architectural overview
- 30-15 Plantation File, held by the South Carolina Historical Society
- 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
- 30-14 Plantation File, South Carolina Historical Society
– Online Catalog - William P. Baldwin Jr., Plantations of the Low Country (Westbrook, ME: Legacy Publishing, 1994)
- Alberta Morel Lachicotte, Georgetown Rice Plantations (Georgetown, SC: Georgetown County Historical Society, 1993)
Order Georgetown Rice Plantations - Suzanne Cameron Linder and Marta Leslie Thacker, Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of Georgetown County and the Santee River (Columbia, SC: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 2001)
Order Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of Georgetown County and the Santee River - Catherine Campant Messner, South Carolina's Low Country: A Past Preserved (Orangeburg, SC: Sandlapper Publishing Company, 1988)
Order South Carolina's Low Country: A Past Preserved - George C. Rogers, Jr., The History of Georgetown County, South Carolina (Spartanburg, SC: Reprint Company, 1990)
Order The History of Georgetown County, South Carolina