click image for close-up The black worker in this picture could have been harvesting rice on Arthur Middleton's plantation, or one of many other rice plantations scattered throughout the ...

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 ...

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 ...