Oak Lawn Plantation – Sandy Island – Georgetown County

Basic Information

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

  Original plantation lands were located on Sandy Island in the vicinity of Belin between Thoroughfare Creek and the Waccamaw River.
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – ?

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

Timeline

• 1823 – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – ?

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Belin; Flagg

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

• ?

Print Resources

• Initial references: 4, 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).