Cherry Hill Plantation – Willington – McCormick County

Basic Information

• Location – Savannah River, one mile from Willington Academy, McCormick County

• Origin of name – For the wild cherries that grow in the area
  

• Other names – ?

• Current status – ?

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

• ? – Ezekiel Noble acquired the plantation. There was a house on it during Noble's ownership that burned (1).
  

• Circa 1820 – George McDuffie purchased the plantation from Ezekiel Noble and constructed a two-story house. McDuffie held many political seats, expanded the size of Cherry Hill and made the plantation his home until his death in 1851 (1).
  

• 1858 – Charles Lockhart Pettigrew purchased Cherry Hill Plantation (3, p. 187).
  

Land

• Number of acres – 5,000 under McDuffie (1)

• Primary crop – Cotton, corn, grains (1)

Slaves

• Number of slaves – 175 under McDuffie (1)

References & Resources

1. Cherry Hill historical marker
   

2. Bobby F. Edmonds, The Making of McCormick County (Snowflake, AZ: Cedar Hill Publishing, 1999)
    Order The Making of McCormick County

3. Information contributed by Thomas S. Whittle, Jr. from:
   William Kauffman Scarborough, The Allstons of Chicora Wood: Wealth, Honor, and Gentility in the South Carolina Lowcountry (Baton Rouge, LA: LSU Press, 2011)
   
   

4. 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