LowCountryPlantations

1722 - Earliest known date of existence; Royal land grant given to William Hopton; 1865 - Original house, outbuildings burned by Union troops; 1931 - Rebuilt by Alfred H. Caspary.

Currently: Bonnie Doone includes Ashland Plantation, Chessey Plantation, DeHon Plantation, Neyle Plantation, and Sterling Plantation. Owned by the Charleston Baptist Association; operated as a camp and conference center.

Buildings:

Current mansion used in the movie "Scarlett".

Number of acres: At one time, the plantation comprised 15,000 acres. The present acreage is 131.

Crops: Primary crop - rice

Owners:

Herman Bischoff (1900), A. H. Caspary (1931), Chessey, Colcock, Delton, Eckhardt, Henry T. Ferguson (1846-1859), Fishburne, Wilmot S. Gibbes, Joseph Peter Grace, Henderson, Sampson W. Leith, Neyle, Cotesworth Pinckney, Fishburne, Pringle, Rhett, Richmond, Paul Sanders (1931), Stokes, Wichman.

These owners may have been owners of the combined plantations.

Owned by the Charleston Baptist Association; operated as a camp and conference center. In 1970 owned by the Charleston Presbytery.

Additional Information

References

1.	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.

2.	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.

3.	Sankofa's African Slave Genealogy. Online resource, http://www.sankofagen.com.

4.	Fishburne, Lucius G. Plantation notes, St. Bartholomew's Parish, (34/646) South Carolina Historical Society.

5.	Cawley, Sherry J. The Postcard History Series: Around Walterboro South Carolina. Arcadia Publishing, 1998.