Red Bluff Plantation – New River – Jasper County

Basic Information

• Location – New River, Jasper County

  545 Glasgow Landing Road
  

• Comments – Old breastworks built as Confederate fortifications can still be seen today. They extend three miles inland (1).
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – ?

• Current status – Operated as a retreat, wedding venue, and hunt lodge (2)
  

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

• Prior to 1860 – Whitehead family owned the plantation and grew rice (1).
  

• Circa 1924 – A house on the property was destroyed by fire (3, p. 158).
  

• 1930 – J. Byron Glover owned Red Bluff (3, p. 158).
  

• 1937 – Elbridge C. Gale purchased Red Bluff Plantation and built a house. He operated the plantation as a egg and poultry farm (1).
  

• 1981 – A reproduction house in the tradition plantation style was built (2).
  

• 2011 – American Timberlands Fund II, LP acquired the property (4).
  

Land

• Number of acres – Approximately 2,500 in 1930; 6,400 in 2013 (2 and 3, p. 158)
  

• Primary crop – Rice (1)
  

Owners

• Alphabetical list – American Timberlands Fund II, LP (2011-?); Corners (?); Elbridge C. Gale (1937-?); J. Byron Glover (1930); Wilson (?); Whitehead (?)
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• The 1981 built house is 7,200 square feet. There is also a modern guest cottage (2).
  

References & Resources

1. Jasper County Plantations - Click here

2. Red Bluff Plantation - Click here

3. Robert B. Cuthbert and Stephen G. Hoffius, editors, Northern Money, Southern Land: The Lowcountry Plantation Sketches of Chlotilde R. Martin (Columbia, SC: The University of South Carolina Press, 2009)
   
   

4. Case study by American Timberlands

Contact Information

• Red Bluff Plantation
  545 Glasgow Landing Road
  Hardeeville, SC 29927
  

  Telephone: 803-748-1312
  Website: Click here