There is much to be said about the beauty of the Charleston Lowcountry area and the history that lies within the acres of The Plantation at Bulow. Before receiving the name Bulow Plantation, the property was known as Savannah Plantation from its first owner, John Drayton in the eighteenth century. 

              The Savannah Plantation was sold to John Joachim Bulow in November of 1818. After Thomas Lehre Bulow’s death in 1860 the plantation was named in the US Agricultural Census as “Estate. J.J. Bulow.” With the passing of Thomas Lehre the plantation’s value depreciated due to abandonment. It is unknown to what capacity Bulow Plantation was operated during the Civil War. It is believed that the fields that had once produced crops became useless and filled with weeds and shrubs. While rice and corn fields fell into a plant succession, phosphate was becoming a popular product.

In 1867 Bulow Plantation was sold out of profit to William L. Bradley of Boston. Due to his ownership of a fertilizer factory in Boston, Bradley used Bulow Plantation’s land as a washing station for material shipped by barge to Stono Ferry. Along with Bulow Mines, Bradley also operated a commissary on the plantation. Special Bulow Store tokens were issued to purchase items in the store. Each token was made of copper and dated 1879. Bulow Mines came to a halt after the strike of an earthquake on August 31, 1886. William L. Bradley died in December of 1894 leaving the land to his two sons, Peter and Robert who continued with the family business.

           In the mid 1900s the land was leased for farming. In 2003, the property was purchased by Bulow Land Company LLC and of the 650 acres, 250 were set up as a conservation easement under Ducks Unlimited.