Col. William Augustus Carson (1800-1856)
of "Dean Hall Plantation" Berkeley Co., South Carolina; Factor of Carson & Snowden
He was the son of a wealthy Charleston merchant and studied at Harvard where he was a member of the Porcellian Club. In 1821, he and his mother purchased the Dean Hall Plantation and he became a successful and passionate rice planter, building the brick plantation house there in 1827. After the death of his eldest son, his younger son, James, sold the plantation in 1909 to the Kittredge family of New York.
