After Elisha Tillman died in 1824, his son John M. Tillman inherited the Ark plantation and lived there until his death in 1865. A survey from 1838 shows the plantation contained 3,197 acres on Waccamaw Neck. In 1860, farm products at the Ark included cattle, swine, wool, Indian corn, sweet potatoes, rye, peas, beans, and mollasses, and 190 acres were used to produce upland rice. Because much of the land was forested and suited to the Naval Stores Industry, Tillman most likely also derived income from that activity. Land once known as a large indigo plantation in the 1770's later became a residential community and vacation resort in the Surfside Beach area, where no extant colonial or antebellum buildings remain. Old Live Oak trees still stand at the former Ark Plantation home site, and the main house site, at what is now the corner of East Willow Drive and Third Avenue South, was left untouched and became the town's Ark Heritage Park. The 1838 survey shows Broad Road passing through the Ark property along a route approximately where U.S. Highway 17 is today, as well as three structures behind the innermost sand ridge, including the Ark House. A 1926 account recalled that around 1900 miles of hardwood forest stretched from below Myrtle Beach to the Ark, then called Floral Beach, with oak, hickory, black walnut, tulip trees, ash, maple, dogwood, wax myrtle, cassinas, and hollies.