City Directories and History: “This Combahee River plantation has gone by several names since the eighteenth century, when the land was part of a grant to Joseph Blake, Esq. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the land was referred to as the Blake Place or Board House Plantation. In 1931 the Blake heirs sold the property to William P. Coe, who changed the name to Cherokee after the Cherokee rose that grows wild in the Lowcountry.
Daniel Blake (1803-1873) was master of this plantation during the antebellum years. His brother, Walter, owned Bonny Hall Plantation across the Combahee River in Beaufort County. Daniel Blake was educated at Cambridge University in England. There were 527 slaves on “Board House” Plantation in 1860.
R&R HISTORY LINK: Colton’s 1854 Map of Colleton Co., S.C.
W.P. Cole built the main house on “Cherokee” in 1931 in the Neoclassic Revival style. The two-story brick central section of the house has one-story hyphens connecting with one-and-a-half-story flankers. The west facade, or land entrance, has a two-story pedimented portico supported by four round columns. The riverfront facade has a projecting gabled portico with semi-elliptical arches on the first floor. Windows are nine over nine lights on the first floor with six over nine (6/9) lights on the second and flankers. The roof is hipped with double interior end chimneys.”
Information from: Historic Resources of the Lowcountry, The Lowcountry Council of Government, Cynthia C. Jenkins, Preservation Planner – Published, 1979
The Yorkville Enquirer of Dec. 25, 1889 reported, “The stables of F.R. Blake in Colleton Co., were burned last Friday. He lost twenty-five horses and mules in the fire.” (It is unclear as to where this was located in the county.)
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