The 86-acre compound offers a rebuilt 1897 main house, two guest houses, a pecan orchard, equestrian facilities and a custom ...
BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C. (WCSC) — Berkeley County is acquiring more than 636 acres on the historic Blessing Plantation to preserve what remains of a former rice plantation that carried West African ...
In 1863, abolitionist Harriet Tubman guided a raid that liberated nearly 760 enslaved people working on rice plantations along the Combahee River, near Beaufort, South Carolina. Dr. Edda Fields-Black, ...
A historic rice plantation today is a place of contradictions. It's beauty is undeniable, with its lush gardens, moss-draped live oaks, scenic waterways and beautifully built residences. Many of these ...
A CAROLINA RICE PLANTATION OF THE FIFTIES—Herbert Ravenel Sass—Morrow ($10). The Rice Coast of South Carolina is fed by eleven rivers whose names read like one of the patriotic catalogs in Whitman’s ...
CHARLESTON, SOAKING IN ITS BEAUTY AND HOSPITALITY, IT’S EASY TO FORGET THE DARKER CHAPTERS THAT UNFOLDED HERE. THE STORY OF THE ENSLAVED IN CHARLESTON, FROM THE SHORES OF AFRICA TO THE AUCTION BLOCK ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Savannah physician and businessman wants to "restore" a 1,000-acre tract of marsh once used used for rice farming. The area, in ...
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - The product that made South Carolina 1 of the richest in colonial North America is being harvested again along the coast. A 3-day rice harvest at Middleton Place plantation ...