Mansfield Plantation, rice plantation in Georgetown County, South Carolina, United States
Mansfield Plantation is an antebellum rice plantation established in 1718 on the banks of the Black River in Georgetown County, South Carolina. Its nearly 1,000 acres hold the original plantation home, a schoolhouse, a chapel, a guest house, a live oak avenue and the only remaining winnowing barn in the county.
Mansfield Plantation was established in 1718 on the banks of the Black River in Georgetown County. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries it was one of the largest rice producers in the country, supplying Europe with "Carolina Gold" rice through tidal irrigation, dykes and enslaved African American labour. After the Civil War rice growing became too costly, the plantations went bankrupt and were sold to new owners. A slave village of seven cabins and a chapel was restored in 2005.
The property lies along the Black River off Georgetown County roads, with the oak allée, main house, chapel, schoolhouse and winnowing barn set among rice fields and cypress swamps. Much of the walking is on unpaved ground between these scattered structures, so allow time to cover the distance on foot.
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