Basic Information

• Location – Edisto River, Springfield, Aiken County

  SC Highway 4

• Origin of name – ?
• Other names – Hopewell (1)
• Current status – ?

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence
• ? – House built
• ? – John Gabriel Guignard owned the plantation (1).
• ? – John Gabriel Guignard gave the plantation to his son James Sanders Guignard (1).
• 1829 – The plantation's name was changed from Hopewell to Evergreen (1).
• ? – James Sanders Guignard gave Evergreen Plantation to his son John Gabriel Guignard II (1).

Land

• Number of acres – ?
• Primary crop – ?
• A slave cemetery is located near SC Highway 4 (1).

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

References & Resources

1. Major James Sanders Guignard - contributed by Stanley Young

2. Information contributed by Stanley Young - many of Stanley's family members, including his great, great grandparents, are buried in the plantation's slave cemetery

3. Guignard Family Papers, 1742-1952 - held by South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

4. Arney R. Childs, Planters and Business Men: The Guignard Family of South Carolina, 1795-1930 (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1957)
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