Download or read book A Short History of Callawassie Island South Carolina written by William A. Behan and published by . This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CALLAWASSIE ISLAND BOASTS RICH HISTORY Callawassie Island is a small subtropical sea island with a long and rich history. The island is located in Beaufort County, South Carolina along the headwaters of the pristine Colleton River between the town of Beaufort and Hilton Head Island, SC. Throughout the five thousand years preceding the eighteenth century Callawassie Island was occupied by numerous Native American cultures, which left a rich archaeology legacy. The Yemassee Indians, who inhabited the Carolina low country in the early eighteenth century, gave the island its name. After they rebelled in 1715 the English expelled the Yemassees and began their own settlements. The island's owners and residents from that era until twenty years ago shared one trait in common. They were consummate risk takers. The risk taking took many forms. Some sought money and power, others were motivated by Patriotism, and others sought personal safety or simple survival. In A Short History of Callawassie Island you will meet these people-famous, infamous, and just plain ordinary. And you will also meet Callawassie Island-beautiful, quiet, and even mysterious. It is a Callawassie Island that eloquently rewarded the risk takers, but sometimes in unexpected ways for them.
Download or read book A Brief History of James Island Jewel of the Sea Islands written by Douglas W. Bostick and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008-08-29 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engaging volume, local historian Douglas Bostick reveals the unacknowledged history of the second community in South Carolina, settled in 1671. Whether investigating prehistoric clues about Native American life before European settlement, detailing the history of agriculture and the reign of King Cotton, following armies from multiple wars or chronicling the triumph of equality on the greens of Charleston's Municipal Golf Course, Bostick tells the story of James Island as only a native son can. Join Bostick as he brings this small jewel of an island out of Charleston's shadow and into the light of its own rich, historic assets.
Download or read book A Social History of the Sea Islands written by Guion Griffis Johnson and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1969 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Old Plantation written by Susan P. Shames and published by Colonial Williamsburg. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A centerpiece of Colonial Williamsburg's folk art collection since the 1930's, The Old Plantation has long intrigued art enthusiasts, historians, and the general public. This eighteenth-century watercolor, which has been widely reproduced in textbooks and scholarly publications, has been a valuable tool for those studying slave life, music, dance, and society, as well as those interested in the genesis of folk art in America. Though extensively analyzed and interpreted, The Old Plantation has remained a mystery. Until Now... This fascinating publication unlocks one of the great mysteries of American decorative arts, revealing not only the career of the painter, but the lives of the unnamed slaves in the images as well.
Download or read book Edisto Island South Carolina written by Nell S. Graydon and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Day the Johnboat Went Up the Mountain written by Carl Naylor and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A maritime archeologist recounts twenty years of remarkable discoveries and adventures both in and under the waters of South Carolina. Through personal anecdotes and archeological data, Carl Naylor documents his experiences in the service of the Maritime Research Division of the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology. Along the way he shares a unique foray into the Palmetto State’s history and prehistory. Naylor’s fascinating career includes raising the Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley; dredging the bottom of an Allendale County creek for evidence of the earliest Paleoindians; exploring the waters off Winyah Bay for a Spanish ship lost in 1526 and the waters of Port Royal Sound for a French corsair wrecked in 1577; and many other adventures. He recounts his investigations of suspected Revolutionary War gunboats in the Cooper River, the famous Brown’s Ferry cargo vessel found in the Black River, a steamship sunk in a storm off Hilton Head Island in 1899, and other mysteries of maritime history. Throughout these episodes, Naylor gives an insider’s view of the methods of underwater archaeology in stories that focus on the events, personalities, and contexts of historic finds and on the impact of these discoveries on our knowledge of the Palmetto State’s past. His memoir is a personal, authoritative account of South Carolina’s efforts to discover and preserve evidence of its remarkable maritime history.
Download or read book A Short History of Callawassie Island South Carolina written by William A Behan and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CALLAWASSIE ISLAND BOASTS RICH HISTORY Callawassie Island is a small subtropical sea island with a long and rich history. The island is located in Beaufort County, South Carolina along the headwaters of the pristine Colleton River between the town of Beaufort and Hilton Head Island, SC. Throughout the five thousand years preceding the eighteenth century Callawassie Island was occupied by numerous Native American cultures, which left a rich archaeology legacy. The Yemassee Indians, who inhabited the Carolina low country in the early eighteenth century, gave the island its name. After they rebelled in 1715 the English expelled the Yemassees and began their own settlements. The island's owners and residents from that era until twenty years ago shared one trait in common. They were consummate risk takers. The risk taking took many forms. Some sought money and power, others were motivated by Patriotism, and others sought personal safety or simple survival. In A Short History of Callawassie Island you will meet these people--famous, infamous, and just plain ordinary. And you will also meet Callawassie Island--beautiful, quiet, and even mysterious. It is a Callawassie Island that eloquently rewarded the risk takers, but sometimes in unexpected ways for them.
Download or read book Fripp Island written by Page Putnam Miller and published by History Press Library Editions. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Social History of the Sea Islands of South Carolina and Georgia With special reference to St Helena Island South Carolina With a bibliography and plates written by Guion Griffis Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Shell Builders written by Colin Brooker and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beaufort, South Carolina, is well known for its historical architecture, but perhaps none is quite as remarkable as those edifices formed by tabby, sometimes called coastal concrete, comprising a mixture of lime, sand, water, and oyster shells. Tabby itself has a storied history stretching back to Iberian, Caribbean, Spanish American, and even African roots—brought to the United States by adventurers, merchants, military engineers, planters, and the enslaved. Tabby has been preserved most abundantly in the Beaufort area and its outlying islands, (and along the Sea Islands all the way to Florida as well) with Fort Frederick in 1734 having the earliest example of a diverse group of structures, which included town houses, seawalls, planters' homes, barns, agricultural buildings, and slave quarters. Tabby's insulating properties are excellent protection from long, hot, humid, and sometimes deadly summers; and on the islands, particularly, wealthy plantation owners built grand houses for themselves and improved dwellings for enslaved workers that after two hundred-plus years still stand today. An extraordinarily hardy material, tabby has a history akin to some of the world's oldest building techniques and is referred to as "rammed earth," as well as " tapia" in Spanish, "pisé de terre" in French, and "hangtu" in Chinese. The form that tabby construction took along the Sea Islands, however, was born of necessity. Here stone and brick were rare and expensive, but the oyster shells that were used as the source for the tabby's lime base were plentiful. Today these bits of shell, often visible in the walls and forms constructed long ago, give tabby its unique and iconic appearance. Colin Brooker, architect and expert on historic restoration, has not only made an exhaustive foray into local tabby architecture and heritage; he also has made a multinational tour as well in search of tabby origins, evolution, and diffusion from the Bahamas to Morocco to Andalusia, which can be traced back as far as the tenth century. Brooker has spent more than thirty years investigating the origins of tabby, its chemistry, its engineering, and its limitations. The Shell Builders lays out a sweeping, in-depth, and fascinating investigative journey—at once archaeological, sociological, and historical—into the ways prior inhabitants used and shaped their environment in order to house and protect themselves, leaving behind an architectural legacy that is both mysterious and beautiful. Lawrence S. Rowland, a distinguished professor emeritus of history at the University of South Carolina Beaufort and past president of the South Carolina Historical Society, provides a foreword.
Download or read book The History of South Carolina written by David Ramsay and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Short History of the Early Days of Bluffton South Carolina written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Chapter in the Early History of South Carolina written by William James Rivers and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pawleys Island written by Lee G. Brockington and published by . This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presented by the Pawleys Island Civic Association, this beautiful coffee table book explores the history of the small island community of Pawleys Island, SC, through the 20th Century. Featuring 800 black and white photographs and extensively researched local history, this book is sure to become an heirloom and is the perfect gift for natives and visitors alike.
Download or read book The History of South Carolina from Its First Settlement in 1670 to 1808 written by David RAMSAY (M.D., of South Carolina.) and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of Revolution of South Carolina from a British Province to an Independent State written by David Ramsay (M.D., of South Carolina. [from old catalogue].) and published by . This book was released on 1785 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dewees written by James Cochrane and published by History Press (SC). This book was released on 2007 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The coast of South Carolina is fringed by a series of low islands covered with glistening white sands, forming little hills that shift with the varying winds. Dewees is one such windswept retreat--and author James Cochrane lovingly traces its history in Dewees: The Island and Its People. Page through Dewees's intriguing history as the island withstands the peril of British invasion during the American Revolution and revels in its modern-day incarnation as a nature preserve. Without automobiles, without a golf course, without inns, restaurants or malls, without a bridge, Dewees Island is like a drop of amber, capturing the treasures of the past and the wonders of nature for all to view.
