Unfortunately, this marker is pretty far back from the road so we were not able to see the subject. But maybe you'll have better luck. It's quite rural and there was no cell coverage out here. Note that the property is privately owned so no trespassing!
The front of the marker reads, "This plantation, with its origins in several grants to John Allson in 1732, 1734, and later, was in the hands of his grandson Benjamin, Jr., of Brookgreen, by 1806. The property passed first to Benjamin's widow Charlotte and then after her death in 1824 to her son Robert F.W. Allston (1801-1864), rice planter, state representative and senator 1828-56, and governor 1856-58."
And the reverse, "This house was completed in 1838 by Robert F.W. Allston and his wife Adele Petigru. Their daughter Elizabeth Allston Pringle (1845-1921) continued to plant rice here for 40 years after her father died in 1864 and wrote of life at Chicora Wood in A Woman Rice Planter (1913) and Chronicles of Chicora Wood (1922). She died here in 1921."
Originally known as Matanzas, the plantation's name was changed to Chicora Wood in 1853, likely in homage to the Chicora people, a Native American tribe once native to the region. The property's architectural footprint is more complex than the marker suggests. Evidence from architectural archaeology indicates that a smaller wing on the north side of the house may have been part of a mid-1700s structure that burned around 1798. That surviving wing was later incorporated into the new Greek Revival house completed before 1809, with the final form emerging in 1838 under Robert F.W. Allston.
It is marker number 22-53 and it was erected in 2001 by the Georgetown Committee of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of South Carolina.
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