Davant Plantation

The entrance to the Plantation

It is located in South Carolina, north of Savannah GA and southwest of Charleston SC.

I haven't posted for some time.  I thought you guys might find this of some interest.

In 2014 new owners bought the Plantation and they decided to construct an 18 hole semiprivate golf course on it.  Well EDI got hired to move the trees for it.  It will be a Fazio course and this will be my third Fazio course i have moved trees on.

Below is a little history of the Plantation.

• Origin of name – Owner Richard James Davant
• 1770 – Earliest known date of existence John Hobard received a grant for 100 acres for services rendered to King George III.
  
• 1811 – Sold to Stephen McDonald
• 1813 – Sold to Williams Watters
• 1815 – Sold to John Cheney, who christened the property The Oaks
• 1828 – Cheney's daughter Evelina married lawyer Richard James Davant. Upon his father-in-law's death, Davant purchased the estate and changed its name to Davant Plantation.
• 1865 – Original Greek Revival home burned by Sherman's troops
  Davant dismantled a much simpler, circa 1820 house that was located on a nearby plantation, which he also owned, and transferred it piece-by-piece to the site of his former home.
  
• ? – Sold to Edwin M. Berolzheimer
• 1938 – Mary Berol became owner. Berol had the plantation house extensively renovated and had the two wings added.
• 1981 – Thomas L. Harper purchased 2,400 acres from the Berol estate.
• 1985 – Harper added an additional 25 acres to the plantation.
• 1991 – Harper sold to Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Rutledge Moore. The Moores reside on the plantation year-round and operate it as a hunting preserve.
• 1995 – Primary filming location for the movie Something to Talk About.
• 2014 – Davant Plantation was sold. It was listed with an asking price of $9,850,000. 

House at the end of the road.

The main house

In 1995 this movie was filmed here.

I have been in the main house twice for meetings, it is really neat.

If you want to see the inside, just watch the movie.

I can't remember seeing it, so i ordered a copy from Amazon for $4 + shipping.

YouTube has some short clips.

The back yard

This is the ol cook house which was built before the Cicil War.  

Sherman's army didn't burn this structure.

The fire place and cook stove/oven.

The great meals that must have been made here.

The original brick walk that has been here before the Civil War.

Hard to imagine who all has walked on this.

This may have been the wash house for laundry.

Horse stables 

Large Hunting Dog Kennel 

Dog cemetery.

The hunting dogs are very important and valuable for the hunt of quail.

They have "Old World Quail" here.  They are a mid sized bird in the pheasant family.

BIG old oaks here.

They don't like to loose these old oaks.

They patch um to keep them going.

Typical road i drive around on to locate and mark trees for the golf course.

It's been fun.

And yes i have seen a gator!

Early morning as the fog was rising.

The Civil War was here.  

Walking around this property makes me wonder what it was like and what all took place in these timbers and what that day was like when Sherman's troops set the main house ablaze.