Poco Sabo is a classic Lowcountry sporting plantation located in the heart of the renowned ACE Basin, one of the nation's most successful conservation initiatives with more than 320,000 permanently protected acres surrounding the Ashepoo, Combahee and Edisto rivers.

Located 30 miles up the Ashepoo River from beautiful Saint Helena Sound and less than an hour from downtown Charleston, South Carolina Poco Sabo is part of a unique and distinguished community - centered on sporting pursuits and anchored by a deep-rooted conservation ethic. Neighboring protected properties include Lavington Plantation, White Hall, Dawn Plantation, Bonnie Doone, Airy Hall, and the 8,048-acre publicly accessible Donnelly Wildlife Management Area. The conservation easement on Poco Sabo is held by the Lowcountry Land Trust. It provides for additional dwellings and reconfiguration, while protecting the overall integrity of the land and allowing uses typical of a Lowcountry plantation.

Perfectly sized at 1,656 acres, Poco Sabo boasts nearly three-fourths of a mile of frontage on the picturesque Ashepoo River and one and a half miles of frontage on Beef Creek. A network of more than 200 acres of tidal and inland impoundments is managed for waterfowl and hosts legions of migrating birds during the hunting season. Poco Sabo's mature mixed hardwood and pine forests also harbor abundant deer, turkey and other wildlife.

"Poco Sabo Plantation's physical and cultural geography - indeed its raison d'etre - are bound up with the commercial cultivation of rice. Although rice is no longer grown there, the expansive system of dikes, trunks, causeways and impounds defines its character as much today as it did when the plantation was at the center of antebellum South Carolina's rice kingdom. Present-day stewardship of Poco Sabo and the ACE Basin includes the preservation of the heritage of rice culture"

-Moore, A. (2005). Poco Sabo Plantation: A Place in Time.

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