Asheton Plantation – Georgetown – Georgetown County

Basic Information

• Location – North Santee River, Georgetown, Prince George Winyah Parish, Georgetown County

  Original plantation lands were located on an island between the South and North Santee Rivers, almost directly across from Hampton Plantation.
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – Commander's Island

• Current status – Part of the Oaks Plantation which is privately owned
  

Timeline

• 1706 – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – ?

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Commander John Bell (1725); Samuel Blythe; Solomon Cohen; Robert and Elizabeth Daniel; John Holman; John Huggins; Joseph and Mark Huggins; John Logan (1764); William Lucas (1856); Murrell; George Parker; Russ
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

• ?

Print Resources

• Initial references: 40

• Suzanne Cameron Linder and Marta Leslie Thacker (with preliminary research by Agnes Leland Baldwin), Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of Georgetown County and the Santee River (Columbia: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 2001), pp. 693-696.
  

Contact Information

• Telephone: ?