Paul and Dalton Plantation is located in the ACE Basin in Colleton County, South Carolina. The land contains 3030 acres and includes the adjoining property known as Longbrow under the same ownership. Improvements include the main house, guest houses, manager’s house, airstrip and hanger, kennels, stables, and equipment sheds. The plantation is situated on the east bank of the Combahee River about 47 miles from Charleston. The area known as the ACE Basin represents one of the largest undeveloped estuaries on the east coast of the United States. The basin consist of approximately 350,000 acres of diverse habitats including pines and hardwood uplands, forested wetlands, fresh, brackish and salt water tidal marshes, barrier islands and beaches. The basins unique estuarine system provides invaluable habitat for a rich diversity of fish and wildlife including such endangered species as the bald eagle, osprey, wood stork and loggerhead sea turtles. Paul and Dalton is a microcosm of this spectacular neighborhood in the South Carolina low country, and one of the finest hunting plantations on the east coast. Approximately three-fourths of the property is protected under a conservation easement.

In the mid 1700’s tidal swamps bordering rivers in this area were cleared and diked for rice cultivation. Today many of these rice fields are managed to provide habitat for migratory and resident waterfowl.

The ACE Basin is owned primarily by private citizens who manage their property for agricultural, forestry and wildlife purposes. Many properties throughout this area are under conservation easements.