Dixie Hall Plantation – Hagood – Sumter County

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Basic Information

• Location – Hagood, Rafting Creek, Sumter County

  On Boykin Road (SC 261), 2.2 miles north of Bethesda Methodist Church
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – Oakland

• Current status – ?

Timeline

• 1735 – Earliest known date of existence (1)
  

  William Sanders received a royal grant (1).
  

• ? – House built

  Sanders built a house and a tavern (1).
  

• 1816 – William Sanders's son William Sanders IV either remodeled the house built by his father or constructed a new house (1).
  

• Prior to 1860 – William Sanders V enlarged the house (1).
  

• 1865 – The house was used as the headquarters of Confederate Maj. Gen. P.M.B. Young and was struck by an artillery shell during a skirmish on April 18. The next day, the plantation was the headquarters of Federal Brig. Gen. Edward E. Potter and used a field hospital (1).
  

• 1950s – The property was renamed Dixie Hall (1).
  

• 1981 – The Sanders family owned the property until this year (1).
  

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Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – ?

Owners

• Chronological list – William Sanders (1735-?); William Sanders IV (1816); William Sanders V (1860)
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• The house standing today was either remodeled or built by William Sanders's son William Sanders IV around 1816 (1).
  

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References & Resources

1. Information contributed by Mike Stroud from the 2002 Sumter County Historical Commission Marker
   

2. Carolina W. Todd and Sidney Wait, South Carolina: A Day at a Time (Orangeburg, SC: Sandlapper Publishing Company, 2008)