Brookland Plantation – Stateburg – Sumter County

Basic Information

• Location – Stateburg, Sumter County, St. Mark's Parish

• Origin of name – ?

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• Current status – ?

Timeline

• 1793 – Earliest known date of existence

• 1804 – House built by Judge William Dobein James

• 1870 – Brookland was used as a rectory for the Reverend Thomas N. Lucas, rector of the Church of the Holy Cross. During this time the home served as a school for boys.
  

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – ?

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Anderson, John Bradley (1836), Judge William Dobein James (1804), Sarah James, Sumter
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

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References & Resources

1. Cassie Nicholes, Historical Sketches of Sumter County Volume II (Sumter, SC: Sumter County Historical Commission 1981)