A Guide to the History of Palmetto Bluff

Résumé du livre

"For millennia, people have come to Palmetto Bluff, a broad peninsula bounded by the May River and the New River in the Lowcountry of South Carolina. Indigenous people fished in the tidal waters, hunted in the forests, and gathered oysters on the edges of the marshes. Plantation owners profited from the labor of enslaved people, who reshaped the land into fields and settlements. Freed people created new communities and farmed land where formerly they had been held captive. A New York banker with Gilded Age wealth built a palatial mansion as a winter retreat. Later, a paper company's executives hosted business leaders, politicians, friends, and family members in a rustic lodge. Finally, 21st-century developers fashioned the forested property into an exclusive residential and resort community. This account, based on nearly twenty years of archaeological and historical research, details the people and places of Palmetto Bluff's past and their links to the present community."--Book jacket.