Dover Plantation – Georgetown County

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Basic Information

• Location – Winyah Bay, Georgetown County

  Located east of US 17 off Island Road on Dover Plantation Road
  

• Origin of name – Named after Dover, England. There was a crossing over the English Channel between Calais, France and Dover. At Calais Plantation there was a ferry crossing to Dover Plantation.
  

• Other names – ?

• Current status – Privately owned

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

• 1926 – William N. Beach purchased nearby Rice Hope Plantation for use as a hunting preserve. Beach substantially increased the size of Rice Hope Plantation by purchasing several additional properties including part of Dover (3, p. 656).
  

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – ?

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Daniel; Horry; Sage
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

References & Resources

1. N. Jane Iseley and William P. Baldwin, Lowcountry Plantations Today (Greensboro, NC: Legacy Publications 2001)
   
   

2. George C. Rogers, Jr., The History of Georgetown County, South Carolina (Spartanburg, SC: Reprint Company, 1990)
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3. 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. 561-566
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