Benvenue Plantation – – Georgetown County

Basic Information

• Location – Pee Dee River, All Saints Parish, Georgetown County

  Located east of US 701 off Plantersville Road on Benvenue Avenue
  

• Origin of name – Bienvenue means welcome in French

• Other names – Bienvenue (this changed over time to reflect the current spelling)
  

• Current status – Privately owned

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

Land

• Number of acres – 300

• Primary crop – ?

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Benoist

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

• ?

Print Resources

• 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. 289-290.
  

Contact Information

• Telephone: ?