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Belfair Plantation

An episode of the Gilded Greats podcast, hosted by Don Schueler, titled "Belfair Plantation" was published on March 23, 2026 and runs 12 minutes.

March 23, 2026 ·12m · Gilded Greats

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Like much of the area, the land known as Belfair today was likely originally inhabited by the Yamasee tribe and even earlier indigenous natives, but in those days, it was a sparsely populated area. For a period before the Revolutionary War, it became part of the "Devil's Elbow" barony claimed by the Lord Proprietor Sir John Colleton.

Like much of the area, the land known as Belfair today was likely originally inhabited by the Yamasee tribe and even earlier indigenous natives, but in those days, it was a sparsely populated area. For a period before the Revolutionary War, it became part of the "Devil's Elbow" barony claimed by the Lord Proprietor Sir John Colleton.

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