Belmont Plantation – Lake Marion – Orangeburg County

Basic Information

• Location – St. John's Berkeley Parish, Orangeburg County

  Original plantation lands were located along the Santee River (now Lake Marion,) about 7 or 8 miles from the town of Eutawville, off SC 6.
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – ?

• Current status – Part of the property was lost when the area was flooded.
  

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

• ? – David Gaillard sold Belmont to William Sinkler, Jr.
  

• 1942 – The plantation house at the Rocks Plantation was moved 1.6 miles to Belmont to escape the flood waters of the Santee Cooper Hydroelectric and Navigation Project. The house burned down in 1992 (3, bk. 1, vol. 7, p. 1).
  

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – ?

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

References & Resources

1. Brief summary of the Gaillard and Sinkler owners: Click here
   

2. J. Russell Cross, Historic Ramblin's through Berkeley (Columbia, SC: R.L. Bryan Company, 1985)
    Order Historic Ramblin's through Berkeley

3. 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