Poor Hope Plantation – Gaston – Lexington County

Basic Information

• Location – Congaree Creek, Gaston, Lexington County

• Origin of name – Most likely named by an owner who had limited "hope" (2, VIII:18)

• Other names – ?

• Current status – ?

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

• Circa late 1700s – Abraham Geiger acquired grants for 2,030 acres on the Congaree Creek. Geiger developed several plantations with Poor Hope Plantation being the largest (4, p. 287).
  

• 1841 – Abraham Geiger passed away at his Poor Hope Plantation (3).
  

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – ?

Slaves

• Number of slaves – Abraham Geiger owned 94 slaves in 1830 that worked his various plantations (4, p. 287)
  

References & Resources

1. Information contributed by Ethel M. Boozer, whose ancestor had been a slave at Poor Hope and given freedom and land, from the February 1972 edition of Fate Magazine.
   

2. 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
   

3. Hanke-Pierson Family - Ancestry.com
   

4. Daniel Marchant Culler, Orangeburgh District, 1768-1868: History and Records (Spartanburg, SC: The Reprint Company, 1995)
    Order Orangeburgh District, 1768-1868: History and Records