Waterford Plantation – Georgetown – Georgetown County

Basic Information

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

  Original plantation lands were located northwest of US 17 in the vicinity of Simmonsville.
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – ?

• Current status – Residential development

Timeline

• 1711 – Earliest known date of existence

  Originally granted to Thomas Clark.

• ? – House built

Land

• Number of acres – Originally 500; eventually grew to 1500

• Primary crop – Rice

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Joseph Allen; Benjamin Allston; Governor F.W. Allston (1847); Josias Allston; R.M. Barnes; Thomas Carter; William Carter; Thomas Clark (1711); James H. Fraser; Susannah and David Graham; Thomas George Pawley (1743); John Pyatt; John Richardson (1891); Edward N. Thurston (1870); William Heyward Trapier (1846)
  

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), pp. 101-104.