Springfield Plantation – Murrells Inlet – Georgetown County

Basic Information

• Location – Waccamaw River, Murrells Inlet, All Saints Waccamaw Parish, Georgetown County

  Original plantation lands were located off US 17 and north of Brookgreen Gardens.
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – Wittecaw, The Spring

• Current status – Part of Brookgreen Gardens

Timeline

• 1717 – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – Rice

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Allston; Flagg; Hasell; Marion; Ward; Weston; Willet; Withers
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

• ?

Print Resources

• 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. 181-186
   Order Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of Georgetown County and the Santee River

• 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