Drake Plantation – Drake – Marlboro County

Basic Information

• Location – Drake, Marlboro County

• Origin of name – Probably for owner Major Zachariah Alford Drake

• Other names – Ellerslie for William (Braveheart) Wallace's estate in Scotland (1). Drake's Mill plus a portion may have became Lowden Plantation (2).

• Current status – Privately owned (1)

Timeline

• Earliest known date of existence – ?

• House built – ?

• ? – Congressman Robert Blair Campbell owned the plantation (1)

• 1847 – Congressman Campbell sold the plantation to Major Zachariah Alford Drake (1)

Land

• Number of acres – 3,000 in 1950 (1)

• Primary crop – Rice, cotton, tobacco (1)

Owners

• Chronological list – Campbell (?-1847); Drake (1847-?)

Slaves

• Number of slaves – 82 in 1860 (3)

Buildings

• ?

References & Resources

1. Information contributed.

2. Prominent Men After the Revolution - posted by the South Carolina Genealogy Trails from A History of Marlboro County: With Traditions and Sketches of Numerous Families, 1897

3. Marlboro County 1860 Slave Census Schedules