The 1936 watercolor was one of thirty created for a book called A Carolina Rice Plantation of the Fifties. The book, based on boyhood recollections of Smith's father, outlined the history of rice ...

For much of its history, Orton was used as a rice plantation. In 2006, Clarence Jones, who was 98 at the time, talked to the StarNews about spending most of his life working on the plantation ...

Holladay: Gullah Geechee Heritage in the Golden Isles. The old rice plantation on Butler Island also has personal significance for Mitchell—her paternal ancestors are from McIntosh County and ...