A TruBlu History

TruBlu Plantation quite naturally took its name from the rich blue of the indigo grown here. The plantation site is located off what is now Highway 601, about eight miles from St. Matthews. It was originally owned by John Singleton, a young officer who fought under his father, Colonel Richard Richardson, in the campaign of 1775. He also owned “Blackwoods,” “Gilman” in Sumter County, “Kensington,” “Fork,” “Scott,” and “Gadsden.” He willed TruBlu to his son Richard in 1820. Richard died with his grandson in an accident returning from TruBlu. On November 26, 1852, he and his grandson DeVeaux were returning from TruBlu. They were both killed when a railroad trestle collapsed as his train was passing over a swamp on the Camden Branch of the South Carolina Railroad.

TruBlu then went to his daughter Marion, and from her to her daughter Anne Peyre Deveaux. Anne married Richard I. Manning, son of Governor John L. Manning (1852-1854) and first cousin of Governor Richard I. Manning (1915-1919). In 1886 the plantation house burned, and on December 8, 1887, Richard I. Manning wrote a letter to Mrs. T. K. Legare in which he speaks sadly of the loss of the house at TruBlu, saying he considers it the garden spot of the world. This letter is now in the possession of the family of Mrs. Nell Peterkin Reid of Oakland Plantation. TruBlu was later sold to the government. After World War II , the government divided TruBlu and sold it to returning veterans. Among those returning veterans was Robert Keefe, from whom we acquired TruBlu.

TruBlu Farms Products:
Grass Fed Beef
Pastured Lamb
Registered Katahdins
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