Wedge Plantation
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The Wedge
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Wedge Plantation in 1940
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| Nearest city | McClellanville, South Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 33°10′17″N 79°23′57″W / 33.17139°N 79.39917°WCoordinates: 33°10′17″N 79°23′57″W / 33.17139°N 79.39917°W |
| Built | ca. 1826 |
| Architectural style | Federal, Federal vernacular |
| NRHP Reference # | 80003660 |
| Added to NRHP | November 25, 1980 |
The Wedge Plantation, which is also known as The Wedge or the William Lucas House, is a plantation about 5 mi (8 km) east of McClellanville in Charleston County, South Carolina. The plantation is a wedge-shaped property between the Harrietta Plantation and the Fairfield Plantation. The plantation house was built around 1830. It is located off US Highway 17 near the Santee River. It was named to the National Register of Historic Places on September 18, 1975.
The house was built by a rice planter William Lucas around 1826. Lucas was a son of Jonathan Lucas, who invented a rice-pounding mill. It remained in the Lucas family for the next hundred years. It was a working rice plantation up to about 1914.
In 1929, Mr. and Mrs. Elbridge Chadwick acquired the plantation and restored the house. In 1948, Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Woodward purchased it for a winter home. Dr. and Mrs. Richard B. Dominick owned the Wedge Plantation from 1966 to 1976. Richard Dominick died at The Wedge in May, 1976. His estate owned the property for another six years. In the 1970s, The Wedge was purchased by the State of South Carolina for "about $1 million." It became the University of South Carolina's International Center for Public Health Research for the study of insect-borne diseases. This program was closed in the mid-1990s when funding for it expired and was not renewed. The University then leased The Wedge until 2014 for hunting and other uses, including the 2009 Kevin Costner film The New Daughter . In November 2014 the property was sold for $4 million to Peter Devinere.
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