Oatland Plantation – Pawleys Island – Georgetown County

Basic Information

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

  Original plantation lands were located north of Willbrook Boulevard and stretched from the Waccamaw River to the Atlantic Ocean.
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – ?

• Current status – Part of Litchfield Plantation resort and golf course
  

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

• 1860 – Martha Allston Pyatt was owner (3, p. 19)

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – Rice (3, p. 20)

Owners

• Chronological list – Martha Allston Pyatt (1860)
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – 215 in 1860 (3, p. 19)

Buildings

• ?

References & Resources

1. George C. Rogers, Jr., The History of Georgetown County, South Carolina (Spartanburg, SC: Reprint Company, 1990)
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2. 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. 153-156
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3. Charles Joyner, Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community, Anniversary Edition (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2009)