[2][3] Mulberry Plantation is located about 3 miles (4.8 km) south of downtown Camden, and occupies more than 4,800 acres (1,900 ha) of land bordering the Wateree River.

The main plantation house is located on a high point of the property, about 0.25 miles (0.40 km) east of Sumter Highway, and is accessed via a drive from that road.

An early 20th-century wrought iron gate, spelling "Mulberry" within its elements, stands across the road between brick piers.

[3] The plantation has a documented history of human habitation dating back as far as about 1250 CE, based on archaeological research of platform mounds found on the property.

Her diary, refined and published by her in the 1870s, remains a major historical work of the period, chronicling the rise and fall of the Confederacy.