Plantation: Bear Island of Colleton County, SC
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Ashepoo River (Original property was bounded to the south by Mosquito Creek, Musselboro Creek, and Crooked Creek, to the west by the Ashepoo River, and to the east by the South Edisto River.)
St. Bartholomew's Parish, Colleton County, SC |
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Other Names: Bare Island
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Timeline: 1760s - Earliest known date of existence
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Currently: Part of the ACE Basin National Wildlife Refuge - open to the public |
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Crops: Primary crop - rice
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Owners: Barker, Elliott, Hanahan, Matthewes
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Neuffer, Claude Henry, ed. "Names in South Carolina." Volume I through 30, 1943-1983, Columbia, SC: Published by the Department of English, University of South Carolina. Printed by The State Printing Company, Columbia, SC. |
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Fishburne, Lucius G. Plantation notes, St. Bartholomew's Parish, (34/646) South Carolina Historical Society. |
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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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