Carolina rice crops were averaging 11 million pounds a year. Small coastal schooners came to river landings to ferry rice to the mills in Charleston, or they made their way to smaller plantation ...

The North Carolina Rice Festival is back for the ... brought to the Americas in the 18th century to work on rice and cotton plantations along the Southeastern coast. They developed the Creole ...

LELAND, N.C. (WECT) - An annual festival celebrating the Cape Fear region’s history of rice farming is starting next week in Leland. The North Carolina Rice Festival will be held on March 8 after ...

The island was even involved in the American Revolutionary War, because the French were jealous of its commercial success.

EDDA L. FIELDS-BLACK is the proud daughter of Eddie Fields, esq., and icon Dorothy Jenkins Fields, founder of the Black Archives Historic Lyric Theater. PHOTO ...

Do you enjoy reading historical markers that dot every city and town across the country? Even if you have yet to engage in ...

On March 22, catch the Jebb Mac Band at Wahoo’s Fish House in Murrells Inlet from 7:30 to 11 p.m. The band plays everything ...

The North Carolina Rice Festival will be held on ... “Surrounded by some of the County’s largest former rice plantations, this venue offers an excellent site for festivities and reflection ...

Every year over Memorial Day weekend, against the backdrop of the bucolic Beaufort River and under the shade of swaying palmetto trees, the Beaufort waterfront comes alive with the colors, sounds, and ...

The South Carolina Department of Agriculture’s latest ... A routine inspection of Wild Wing Plantation Golf Course on Feb. 26 found several violations, including drain flies around the kitchen ...

Englishmen initially created plantation societies in the West Indies, and in the 1670s South Carolina became a northern extension ... Since the 1970s former rice plantations have become upscale ...