During the 1920s and 1930s, Kingstree and Williamsburg County became a winter colony for rich Northern industrialists who spent anywhere from several weeks to several months here in the fall and winter while they enjoying hunting on land they had leased or bought. This November 19, 1932, story from the News & Courier gives us a look at some of the men who spent time here.
This is presumed to be Howard Hadden, addressing the 1938 meeting of the
members of the Carolina Plantation Society.
Source: Leisure, Plantations, and the Making of the New South
"Northern and eastern sportsmen are beginning to arrive in Williamsburg County where their number is increasing constantly. H.S. Hadden, retired advertising capitalist of New York who purchased Springbank Plantation last year and is converting it into one of the showplaces of this section has arrived with Mrs. Hadden. They expect to spend much of the winter in the colonial home they have made of our old McElveen house. A central heating plant is being installed, and work on the six-acre water garden continues.
"R.R.M. Carpenter, vice president of E.I. DuPont de Nemours Company in Wilmington, Delaware, with Mrs. Carpenter and son, Bobby, and Mr. Ranken, have been down to enjoy the deer season and to make ready for the quail open season next week. The S.A. Graham home near the Santee, purchased last year by Mr. Carpenter, has been completed and is one of the most attractive places in the county, or the coastal section, as for that. The landscape gardening, which has been done according to the owners' own ideas, has been quite successful, and results have been immediate. This, too will have in addition to the large, open fireplaces, a central heating system.
R.R.M. Carpenter
"Eugene DuPont, President of the DuPont de Nemours Company, owns jointly a hunting preserve nearby with Mr. Carpenter, approximating 10,000 acres.
Eugene Irénée DuPont
"Herbert Pulitzer, one of the former publishers of the New York World, who with his brother, Ralph, has under lease a large hunting preserve in the Indiantown community, arrived with a party of five Wednesday and are staying at Burroughs Hall, the winter lodge leased by Ralph Pulitzer. His party spent Wednesday afternoon in Georgetown County at the Baruch estate.
Herbert "Tony" Pulitzer
"Robert Goelet, director in the Chemical Bank and Trust Company of New York, has leased for a period of years the home in North Kingstree (Ed. Note: This house was on Live Oak Avenue), belonging to Leroy Epps. This has been renovated throughout, furnished in colonial style with fluted, ruffled organdy curtains and chintz draperies at the windows, and the grounds planted to additional shrubbery. Two fair-sized magnolia trees have been moved to the lawn from Charleston.
"Mr. Goelet, with N. Baxter Jackson, who is vice president of the Chemical Bank and Trust Company, have leased together a hunting preserve approximately 8,000 acres in the Bethel community of this county near the Hadden preserve. Mr. and Mrs. Goelet, with guests, are expected to arrive next week.
"On the Snowden farm below Indiantown land had been leased by a Mr. Sturges of New York for a preserve, and he is now having erected an attractive lodge there.
"The lovely old Snow home in the Rome community has been occupied for the last several winters by a Mr. Reed of Philadelphia.
"Bernard M. Baruch, financier, also has a large preserve in the Indiantown community.
Bernard Baruch
"Over near Greeleyville, C.C. Allen of Kenosha, Wisconsin, has a home and expansive preserve.
"Many acres of land in the Lanes vicinity are shared as Bob-White preserves by various ones who come and go in the clubhouse in Lanes.
Ector O. Munn
"And in the Salters section, Ector Orr Munn and his brother maintain a home and large preserve where they have their own fisheries. Also, Richard E. Reeves has a preserve near Salters."
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