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Plantation: Board House of Colleton County,
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Combahee River (5109 Combahee Road), Colleton County
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Other Names: Blake Place, Cherokee
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Timeline: 1690 - Earliest known date of existence, part of land grant to Joseph Blake. 1710 - Original house built (named The Boardhouse). The main house and outbuildings were destroyed by fire during the Civil War. 1930 - Caroline and W.R. Coe purchased Cherokee from the Blake family. 1931 - Current house built
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Currently: Exclusive hunting preserve and golf community, limited to 25 members Comments - The Jeep Cherokee is named for this plantation. Former owner, Robert Beverly Evans, was the head of American Motors. |
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Buildings: Grounds designed by Frederick Law Olmsted (landscape architect who also designed the Biltmore Estate in Asheville and Central Gardens in New York City).
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Number of acres: 11,000 (1930); approximately 7,000 (present-day)
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Crops: Primary crop - rice
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Owners: Daniel Blake, Joseph Blake, Caroline and W.R. Coe, Robert Beverly Evans, Robert L. Huffines, Jr. (President of Burlington Industries and Director of ABC Television), J. Randolph Updyke, Williams Furniture Company
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SC Highway Historical Marker Guide Published by the SC Department of Archives & History, International Standard Book NO. 1-880067-14-5. |
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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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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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Iseley, N. Jane. Plantations of the Low Country : South Carolina 1697-1865 / photography by N. Jane Iseley ; text by William P. Baldwin, Jr. ; researched by Agnes L. Baldwin. Greensboro, N.C. : Legacy Publications, c1985. |
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Fishburne, Lucius G. Plantation notes, St. Bartholomew's Parish, (34/646) South Carolina Historical Society. |
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Todd, Caroline W. and Sidney Wait. South Carolina, a Day at a Time. Orangeburg, S.C. : Sandlapper Pub. Co., c1997. |
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