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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Robert Pinckney Tucker Papers, #1010, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Gift of Mrs. Robert P. Tucker, Charleston, S.C., 1945

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

Sensitive Materials Statement

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• Carolina Cypress Co.
• Carolina Land Improvement Co.
• Dry Fork Coal and Timber Corporation.
• Industries--South Carolina--History--20th century.
• Land companies--Southern States--History--20th century.
• Land titles--Southern States.
• Lumber trade--Southern States--History--20th century.
• Midland Timber Co.
• Montague, R. L.
• Oakland Club (St. Stephens, S.C.)
• Oconee Timber Co.
• Pine Timber Corporation.
• Real estate business--Southern States--History--20th century.
• Sea Coast Timber Co.
• Southern Land and Timber Co.
• Southern States--Surveys--History--20th century.
• Southern Woodland Co.
• Three Runs Lumber Co.
• Tucker, Robert Pinckney, 1865-1920.
• Welch, H. F.

Robert Pinckney Tucker (1865-1920) of Charleston, S.C., was a real estate businessman who bought and sold large tracts of land in South Carolina for lumber, minerals, and other development. Other business activities in South Carolina and elsewhere included organizing stock companies for land and timber speculation; the development and sale of large plantations near Charleston, S.C.,; and the organization of the Oakland Club of South Carolina in 1908, a stock company for hunting preserves in South Carolina.

The collection includes correspondence and records, chiefly 1900-1910, of corporations organized by Robert Pinckney Tucker. The primary business in which the companies engaged was buying and selling large tracts of land for lumber, minerals, hunting preserves for wealthy northerners, and development in South Carolina and other states. Records include blueprint maps and land plats; abstracts of land titles, compiled 1906-1908; and financial statements and accounts, 1908-1917. Corporations involved include Carolina Cypress Co., Carolina Land Improvement Co., Dry Fork Coal and Timber Corporation, Midland Timber Co., Oakland Club, Oconee Timber Co., Pine Timber Corporation, Sea Coast Development Corporation, Sea Coast Timber Co., Southern Land and Timber Co., Southern Woodland Co., and Three Runs Lumber Co. Business associates represented in the collection include R. L. Montague and H. F. Welch.