Wannah Plantation – Boykin – Kershaw County

Basic Information

• Location – Tributary of Wateree River, Swift Creek, Boykin, Kershaw County
  

• Origin of name – From the Catawba Indian word meaning "home" or "tepee"
  

• Other names – Boykin (2)

• Current status – ?

Timeline

• 1870 – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

• Mid-1900s – William Ancrum and Caroline Boykin owned the plantation (2).
  

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – ?

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

• Other people and families associated with Wannah Plantation include Almeater Brisban, Sarah Ferguson and family, George and Cissy Crim, Weebi and Maybelle Edwards, the Bradford family (2).
  

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. Information contributed by Theresa Reynolds whose great-grandmother Almeater Brisban was the cook for the Boykin Family and lived at the plantation until her death in the mid-1980s.