Campfield Plantation – Georgetown County

Basic Information

• Location – Black River, Georgetown County

• Origin of name –

• Other names – ?

• Current status – Privately owned Greenfield Plantation

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

• 1946 – Inman purchased Campfield and also owned nearby Greenfield Plantation.
  

• ? – Vick "Butch" Deer bought Campfield from Inman (Walker Inman).
  

Land

• Number of acres – 700

• Primary crop – Rice

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Bailey; Bauknight; Bayler; Boone; Brown; Burnside; Vick “Butch” Deer; James Doughty; William Doughty; Dupuy; Sextus Tertius and Sarah Doughty Gaillard; Grover; Inman; Lepear; Motte; Myers; Pawley; Pringle; Read; Saxby; Shubrick; Oliver Brighton Skinner; Trench; L.J. Upton
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – 100 in 1824

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

• ?

Print Resources

• Tommy Howard, Walker Inman, Multi-Millionaire Heir of Duke Fortune Dead at 57 (Georgetown, SC: Georgetown Times, March 9, 2010)
  

• 30-15 Plantation File, held by the South Carolina Historical Society

• George C. Rogers, Jr., The History of Georgetown County, South Carolina (Spartanburg, SC: Reprint Company, 1990)
   Order The History of Georgetown County, South Carolina

• 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), pp. 491-494
   Order Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of Georgetown County and the Santee River