Turkey Hill Plantation – Ridgeland – Jasper County

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Basic Information

• Location – Jasper County

  2215 Log Hall Road, six miles north of Ridgeland
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – ?

• Current status – Hunting preserve. Huge farming enterprise known as Cypress Woods Corporation.
  

  Jack Morris takes care of the Turkey Hill recreation section. There are 150 plantings of patches for wildlife food, and three duck ponds are maintained. There is a fifty-acre lake stocked with fish and a lake of five acres.
  

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• 1860 – Reuben Henry Tison owned Turkey Hill Plantation (1, p. 138).
  

• ? – Plantation was acquired by the Savannah River Lumber Company (3).
  

• 1939 – The Savannah River Lumber Company declared bankruptcy and sold the 19,000 acre plantation to Jeremiah Milbank (3).
  

  Milbank constructed a house designed by Willis Irvin. Irvin designed several, modern plantation houses that were constructed in the Lowcountry during this era (4, p. 34).
  

• 1939 – House built by Jeremiah Milbank
  

Land

• Number of acres – 19,000 in 1939 (3)
  

• Primary crop – ?

Slaves

• Number of slaves – 100+ in 1860 (1, p. 138)
  

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. Jeremiah Milbank with Grace Fox Perry Milbank, Turkey Hill Plantation (SC: Self-published, 1966)
    Order Turkey Hill Plantation

3. About Turkey Hill Plantation: Click here

4. 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)
   
   

Contact Information

• Turkey Hill Plantation
  2215 Log Hall Road
  Ridgeland, SC 29936
  

  Telephone: 843-726-8646
  Website: Click here