Georgetown County · Marker 22-50
The Oaks Plantation
U.S. Hwy. 17 N, Georgetown vicinity, near the entrance to the plantation on the North Santee River
Front inscription
The Oaks Plantation was established on the Santee River in 1705 by a grant from the Lords Proprietors to John Sauseau, a French Huguenot settler. It passed through several owners in the prominent Buchanan and Withers families before 1793, when brothers Isaac and William Mazyck acquired a tract of more than 1,000 acres and began producing rice here on the rich Santee River delta.