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

• ?

References & Resources

1. Claude Henry Neuffer, editor, Names in South Carolina, Volume I through 30 (Columbia, SC: The State Printing Company)
    Order Names in South Carolina, Volumes I-XII, 1954-1965
    Order Names in South Carolina, Index XIII-XVIII
   

2. George C. Rogers, Jr., The History of Georgetown County, South Carolina (Spartanburg, SC: Reprint Company, 1990)
    Order The History of Georgetown County, South Carolina

3. 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. 101-104.
    Order Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of Georgetown County and the Santee River