Midway Plantation – Pawleys Island – Georgetown County

Basic Information

• Location – Waccamaw River, Pawleys Island, All Saints Waccamaw Parish, Georgetown County

  Original plantation lands were located northwest of US 17 off Kings River Road between Heritage Drive and Caledonia Drive.
  

• Origin of name – Named Midway because it was located midway between the border dividing Georgetown and Horry districts, and it acted as a geographical reference point for travelers.
  

• Other names – ?

• Current status – Golf course

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – ?

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Thomas Pinkney Alston; Benjamin Francuil Dunkin
  

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).