or one of many other rice plantations scattered throughout the lowcountry of coastal South Carolina by the min-18th century. This picture, however, comes from the November 1859 issue of Harper's ...

he has worked in the background of South Carolina’s rice revival. The farmer grows organic rice, among other crops, at Turnbridge Plantation, where Richard Schulze Sr. resurrected nutty ...

The 400 acres of land along South Carolina Highway 61 was ... to continue on picking cotton or raising rice or whatever they were doing at a specific plantation." Enslaved people were often ...

painted by South Carolina artist Alice Huger Smith. The 1936 watercolor was one of thirty created for a book called A Carolina Rice Plantation of the Fifties. The book, based on boyhood ...

Cypress Gardens is a hidden gem just north of Charleston. Take a boat tour of the swamp or hike one of the trails through a garden of blooming flowers.

During the height of antebellum agricultural production, it is estimated that there were nearly fifty thousand plantations in the slaveholding ... half of the sixteenth century, both North Carolina ...

When I was growing up in South Carolina, the oldest places ... bought up the old plantations. To the extent that they maintained the rice fields and the uplands, these new owners did so for ...

The Kulzes have been cultivating heirloom, organic Carolina Gold rice on a few wet acres. Bluff Plantation once encompassed ... man in all of antebellum South Carolina. Near the banks of the ...

Largely agricultural, settlers relied heavily on the slave trade to work rice and indigo plantations, and by 1720 slaves made up a majority of South Carolina's population. South Carolina Inmate ...