Doar Family
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Doar is the surname of an aristocratic family in the southern United States. Prior to the American Civil War, family members were one of the largest landowners in the South. The family's fortune in the U.S. originates mainly from plantations in Charleston, Georgetown, Berkeley, Orangeburg, Barnwell and Beaufort Counties, South Carolina. Among the plantations that the Doar family owned are: Doar Plantation, Doar Point Plantation, Palo Alto (now part of the University Of South Carolina International Center for Public Health Research), Harrietta (on the National Register of Historic Places including the Doar Family Cemetery), Woodville, Walnut Grove, Montgomery, Oak Grove, Egremont, Elmwood, Woodside, Hopsewee (National Register of Historic Places and birthplace of Thomas Lynch, Jr., who signed the Declaration of Independence)and Windsor.
The Doars are related to other historical families including the Cordes, Lucas, Gadsden, Screven, Pinckney, Horry, Middleton and DeWolf families. They are included in Our Circle, which is a (private) guide to the Who's Who of Southern Families.
The Doars were founding members of the Church Of England in the southeastern U.S. and were instrumental in helping to open the first public schools in the south, mainly in Charleston County, SC.
Doar Point (a geographical location) is on the S.C. coast.
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Doar Road (State Road 432), Charleston to Awendaw, SC
Sources: University of South Carolina Institute for Southern Studies
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