In total, the grounds extend a mile on both sides of the Pee Dee River and include a 2-acre lake. The house has a private boat ramp and dock; a creek also runs through the property.
The plantation had ceased operations as a rice farm years before. Five hundred of the acres were used to grow pine trees for paper mills; the Constances cut all of those down, cleared out the roots, and put in a turf farm instead. “We wanted to find something that could offset the expense of the plantation,” Constance says. “It paid its own expenses.”
The rest of the property was either returned to nature or groomed into gracious lawns and gardens. They also added a tennis court.
“After all the money that’s been spent on it, lovingly, if we were 60 or even 70 we wouldn’t want to sell,” Constance says. “It’s time, as they say, to move it along.”
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