Oaks Plantation – Murrells Inlet – Georgetown County
Basic Information
- Location – Waccamaw River, Murells Inlet, All Saints Waccamaw Parish, Georgetown County
Original plantation lands were located northwest of US 17 in the vicinity of Theodosia Road.
- Origin of name – ?
- Other names – ?
- Current status – Part of Brookgreen Gardens
Timeline
- 1711 – Earliest known date of existence
Granted to Robert Daniell
- 1730 – House built by Joseph Allston
- 1760 – New house built by Joseph Allston
Land
- Number of acres – ?
- Primary crop – ?
- SC Governor Joseph Alston is buried in the Alston family cemetery at Oaks Plantation.
Owners
- Alphabetical list – William Algernon; Joseph Allston; Joseph Alston (wife - Theodosia Burr Alston); Joseph Alston, Jr.; Mary Alston; John Ashe; Robert Daniell; Louis Claude Lachicotte; Dr. Julius A. Mood; Archer M. Huntington; Benjamin Burgh Smith and Anna Louisa Alston Smith
Slaves
- Number of slaves – ?
Buildings
References & Resources
- National Register of Historic Places
– Nomination form - PDF - submitted in 1978
– Photographs, overview
- 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. 165-170
Order Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of Georgetown County and the Santee River - 30-15 Plantation File, held by the South Carolina Historical Society
- Sharon A. Carlisle, George Washington's Guide to the Waccamaw Neck and Georgetown (Rice Told Tales)
(Self published: 2004)
- Alberta Morel Lachicotte, Georgetown Rice Plantations
(Georgetown, SC: Georgetown County Historical Society, 1993)
Order Georgetown Rice Plantations - George C. Rogers, Jr., The History of Georgetown County, South Carolina
(Spartanburg, SC: Reprint Company, 1990)
Order The History of Georgetown County, South Carolina
Contact Information
- Brookgreen Gardens
P.O. Box 3368
Pawleys Island, SC 29585
Telephone: 800-849-1931
Website: Click here
