Fountain Head Plantation – Lake Moultrie – Orangeburg County

Basic Information

• Location – Submerged by Lake Moultrie, Orangeburg County

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – ?

• Current status – In 1939, work began on the Santee Cooper Hydroelectric and Navigation Project. This project displaced many families and communities, and many historic homes were lost as the area was flooded.
  

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – ?

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Edward Edwards; Kirk; Colonel Robert Mckelvey
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

References & Resources

1. Frederick A. Porcher, Fountain Head - brief summary of the owners
   

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

3. Lesley M. Drucker and Ronald W. Anthony. The Spiers Landing Site: Archaeological Investigations in Orangeburg County, South Carolina. Resource Studies Series 10, Carolina Archaeological Services, Columbia, 1979.
   

4. Lesley M. Drucker. Socioeconomic Patterning at an Undocumented Late 18th Century Site: Spiers Landing, South Carolina. Historical Archaeology 15 (2) 1981: 58-68.
   

5. 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