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 Kulzes have been cultivating heirloom, organic Carolina Gold rice on a few wet acres. Bluff Plantation once encompassed 7,400 acres along this stretch of the Combahee River near Yemassee.