Plantation: Laurel Springs of Colleton County,
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Combahee River, Colleton County
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Timeline:
Oakland belonged to the Lowndes family. Earlier, Laurel Springs belonged to Theodore Ravenel. In 1927 it was bought by E.F. Hutton who built the present one-story house in 1934 to replace an earlier one that had burned. In 1942 Lightsey brothers purchased Laurel Springs.
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Currently: Oakland and Rose Hill are now a part of this plantation. |
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Buildings: There is a row of old slave cabins called "the street".
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Number of acres: 2000
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Crops: Primary crop - Rice
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Number of slaves: In 1931 Daddy Scipio still lived on the plantation.
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Owners: Adgar, Edward Frances Hutton (1927), Oswald and Norris Lightsey (1942), Charles Tidyman Lowndes, James Lynah, Nowell, Theodore D. Ravenel
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Linder, Suzanne Cameron. (ACE Basin)Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of the ACE River Basin--1860. Columbia, South Carolina: Published by the South Carolina Dept. of Archives & History for the Archives and History Foundation, Ducks Unlimited, and the Nature Conservancy, 1995. |
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30-15 Plantation File, South Carolina Historical Society |
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Colleton County Historical and Preservation Society, Pictorial History Committee, eds. Colleton County, South Carolina : a Pictorial History. Dallas, Tex. : Taylor Pub. Co., c1994. |
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Fishburne, Lucius G. Plantation notes, St. Bartholomew's Parish, (34/646) South Carolina Historical Society. |
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