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Sensitivity to being "green", coupled with preservation, has been the key criteria that "had to be adhered to" before, during and after the conversion of Greenwood Plantation into a low-keyed, private, single family community, appropriately named for its location.
Before development began, critical thought was given and utmost care has been taken by the developers to maximize and enhance the natural beauty of the land, the creek and the marshes.
Greenwood Plantation, a historic rice plantation on tidal Cathead possesses both the elements of convenience of location and sensitivity to the surrounding environment. The new development is located just 2.5 miles west of the Outlet Mall on Hwy. 251.
As you turn off Hwy. 251, you immediately pass through dedicated conservation areas. This space functions both as a buffer between the highway
traffic and the community, as well as an attractive green area for residents, their guests and all Hwy. 251 traffic. These areas will be landscaped with native plants around a stocked pond and a wildflower garden.
Upon passing the smart gatehouse sitting on the bridge, the road bed changes from harsh asphalt to the softness provided by the lime rock lanes. Greenwood Drive is divided by a long aisle of bricked and landscaped beds filled with native and low-maintenance plants - roses, colorful grasses, oleander, tea olives and canes.
You've just entered the private spaces of Greenwood Plantation, circa 1830, reincarnated in 2007 as a gated, environmentally sensitive community of only 33 homesites. Greenwood, once a working rice plantation, is both old and new; in many ways yesteryear, yet very much today, and harkening of tomorrow.
Barbara, Helen and Min, daughters of Thomas Hart Gignilliat
Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, in 1685, there was a family of French Huguenot descent, Jean Francois de Gignilliat (pronounced "gin-lat") and his wife, Suzanne, who lived in Switzerland. At the invitation of the Lord Proprietors, they choose to leave forever the comfort of kith and kin, anglicize their name and settle in a new land called the Carolinas.
Although born into an honorable and ancient Swiss family of wealth with roots going back to the 1400s, they could not resist the offer of a 3,000 acre grant by the Lord Proprietors of the Carolinas. In fact, so great was the lure of vast acreages to be had and the possibility of money to be
This is the story of Greenwood Plantation
