George Washington Morris, who was born in 1796 at Morrisania, the family estate in Westchester County, New York, married Maria Evans Whaley from Edisto.

After his death, his wife, Maria, kept control of the Grove, and later purchased a schooner, with which she transported freight for her neighbors.

On January 24, 1866, J. Berkeley Grimball made application to the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands for restoration of his property.

Because he took the amnesty oath of loyalty to the United States, he was able to regain ownership of the Grove and Pinebury.

Therefore, the land reverted to G. W. Morris' heirs, Josephine M. Porter (1831–1892), the wife of Peter A. Porter (1827–1864), a prominent Colonel from New York who had died during the Civil War and who had previously been married to another southerner, Mary Cabell Breckinridge (1826–1854),[4] and Sabina Ann Morris in 1870.

After that, the property changed hands numerous times until, it was purchased by Owen Winston in 1929, the President of Brooks Brothers.

Mr. Baier sold the Grove to Margaret B. Hendricks, who owned the plantation until The Nature Conservancy purchased it in 1991.

The Grove Plantation House is one of only a few antebellum mansions in the ACE Basin area to survive the Civil War.