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Step into Southern history with stunning antebellum homes, showcasing grand architecture, elegant details, and timeless ...
Three gunboats slipped up the dark Combahee River on June 2, 1863. Commanding one of them was Harriet Tubman. During that ...
Tubman's 1863 raid, which destroyed seven plantations along the Combahee River in South Carolina and freed 756 enslaved ...
These South Carolina restaurants pair soul-satisfying Lowcountry cuisine with stunning views of marshes, rivers, and ...
Just 12 miles from Charleston’s bustling downtown is Magnolia Plantation and Gardens. Every corner at Magnolia tells a story of resilience, beauty and the enduring connection between humans and ...
The story of rice cultivation in early colonial SC, and how it became a prominent cash crop. This episode of ETV Classics tells the story of how rice began to be cultivated in South Carolina in ...
Major Pierce Butler, a U.S. senator representing South Carolina and an original signer of the United States Constitution, left the 1,500-acre rice plantation—and its enslaved laborers—to his ...
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 ...
The farmer grows organic rice, among other crops, at Turnbridge Plantation, where Richard Schulze Sr. resurrected nutty, aromatic Carolina Gold rice in the late 1980s.
A Black farmer in South Carolina cultivates culture, history — and rice Rollen Chalmers has been integral to the region’s rice revival, and now chefs and home cooks are becoming loyal customers.