Colleton County - Steven J. Coker
Subject: Colleton County
From: Steven J. Coker
Date: December 15, 1998

Colleton County
http://www.pride-net.com/wccc/colleton/index.html
http://www.sccounties.org/counties/colleton.htm

Colleton County was named for one of the Lords Proprietors, Sir John Colleton
(1608-1666). The county was first created in 1682 under the proprietary
government, but the designation was seldom used in the colonial period. Instead,
the area was known by its parish names: St. Bartholomew, St. Paul, and St.
George Dorchester. In 1769 these parishes became part of Charleston District,
where they remained until Colleton District was formed in 1800. The county seat
is Walterboro . A portion of the county was removed in 1897 to form Dorchester
County. Several Revolutionary War skirmishes took place in Colleton County , and
the state legislature met in the town of Jacksonboro in 1782 while Charleston
was occupied by the British. In 1828 the first nullification meeting in the
state was held in Walterboro. This part of the lowcountry was known for its
extensive rice and cotton plantations. Many of the old plantations were bought
by Northerners after the Civil War for use as hunting preserves; some of those
lands are now being incorporated into the ACE Basin, a nature preserve bounded
by the Ashepoo, Combahee, and Edisto rivers. The Revolutionary War hero Isaac
Hayne (1745-1781) was a Colleton resident, as were politicians Rawlins Lowndes
(1721-1800) and William Lowndes (1782-1822).

Compiled by South Carolina State Library 1996. 
http://www.state.sc.us/scsl/coll.html

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