Hobcaw Barony

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In 1718 the Lords Proprietors granted

12,000 acres on Hobcaw Point, the

southern portion of Waccamaw Neck,

to John, Lord Carteret. The barony was

subdivided beginning in 1766, creating

several large rice plantations which

flourished until the Civil War. In 1905-

07 Bernard M. ...