Vernesover Plantation – Savannah River – Jasper County

Basic Information

• Location – Savannah River, Jasper County

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – Vernersobre (Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of the ACE River Basin - 1860, p. 97)

• Current status – ?

Timeline

• 1800 – Earliest known date of existence

• Early 1800s – James Elliott McPherson owned the plantation sometime before his death in 1834. He also owned Brewton Plantation and Mount Pleasant Plantation, which was referred to as Pleasant Hill Plantation in McPherson's will (Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of the ACE River Basin - 1860, p. 97)

• ? – House built

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – Rice (Jasper County Plantations)

Owners

• Alphabetical list – James Elliott McPherson (early 1800s) (Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of the ACE River Basin - 1860, p. 97)
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

• Jasper County Plantations

Print Resources

• Suzanne Cameron Linder, Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of the ACE River Basin - 1860 (Columbia, SC: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 1995)
   Order Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of the ACE River Basin - 1860