Mont Arena Plantation – Sandy Island – Georgetown County

Basic Information

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

  Original plantation lands were located on the southern part of Sandy Island almost directly across from Brookgreen Gardens.
  

• Origin of name – A literal translation of Mont Arena is "sand mountain." Sandy Island, where the plantation was located, was all sand except for the marsh land around the edges of the island.
  

• Other names – ?

• Current status – The island has remained undeveloped except for descendants of freed slaves that still live there. Accessible only by boat.
  

Timeline

• 1732 – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

Land

• Number of acres – 538

• Primary crop – Rice

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Allston; Heriot; Thomas; Waring; Washington; Withers
  

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. 217-220