Wicklow Hall Plantation – Georgetown – Georgetown County

— Wicklow Hall Plantation © Brandon Coffey —

Basic Information

• Location – North Santee River, Georgetown, Georgetown County

  Located on Minim Island off SC Secondary Road 30 (North Santee River Road)
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – Duck Point Dwelling, Hide Out, Lowndesville, The Strip, Wicklow

• Current status – Privately owned

— Side View of Wicklow Hall Plantation © Brandon Coffey —

Timeline

• 1825 – Earliest known date of existence

• 1831 – House built by Rawlins Lowndes and his three brothers acquired Wicklow Hall (1, p. 3).
  

• 1831-1840 – House built by Lowndes sometime during this period (1, p. 2).
  

• 1843 – By this time Rawlins Lowndes was the sole owner. Lowndes developed the plantation into a large rice producer but divided his time between the plantation and New York City. By 1861 left the plantation life and resided permanently in New York (1, p. 3).
  

• 1899 – S.M. Ward Company, a rice planting firm, purchased the plantation (1, p. 3).
  

• 1912 – S.M. Ward Company was not successful producing rice and sold the property to the Kinloch Gun Club (1, p. 3).
  

• ? – Kinloch Gun Club's manager, T. Cordes Lucas, acquired the house and surrounding land (1, p. 3).
  

• 1967 – Mr. and Mrs. Thatcher Paris purchased Wicklow Hall and began a renovation (1, p. 3).
  

• 1976 – The Parises conveyed the plantation to the daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene S.N. Lawrimore who continued the renovation project (1, p. 3).
  

Land

• Number of acres – 190

• Primary crop – Rice (1, p. 3)

Owners

• Alphabetical list – DuPont; Kinloch Gun Club (1912-?); Mr. and Mrs. Eugene S.N. Lawrimore (1976-?); Livingston; Rawlins Lowndes (1831-?); T. Cordes Lucas; Mr. and Mrs. Thatcher Paris (1967-1976); S.M. Ward Company (1899-1912)
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – over 100 in 1850 (1, p. 3)
  

Buildings

• The house is a two-story clapboard structure and there are several outbuildings on the property (1, p. 2).

References & Resources

1. National Register of Historic Places
   – Nomination form - PDF - submitted in 1978
   – Photographs, architectural overview
   

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)
    Order Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of Georgetown County and the Santee River

3. 30-15 Plantation File, held by the South Carolina Historical Society
   –  Research Guide
   

4. 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
   

5. Catherine Campart Messmer, South Carolina's Low Country - A Past Preserved Text (Orangeburg, SC: Sandlapper Publishing, 1988)

6. N. Jane Iseley and William P. Baldwin, Lowcountry Plantations Today (Greensboro, NC: Legacy Publications 2001)
    Order Lowcountry Plantations Today
   

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