A centuries-old plantation located on a sprawling 1,640 acres along South Carolina’s picturesque ACE Basin is on the market. Poco Sabo Plantation, listed for $16.5 million, may be attractive to a ...

The Bureya colonization plan took a more practical turn today when A. Merezhin, leader of the Ozet delegation which is sponsoring the plan, signed an agreement with the Central Executive Committee of ...

The South Carolina Lowcountry, from Hilton Head to the upper reaches of the Waccamaw River near Myrtle Beach, once was the Rice Kingdom. Plantations were built all along the intertidal waterways where ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - The product that made South Carolina 1 of the richest in colonial North America is being harvested again along the coast. A 3-day rice harvest at Middleton Place plantation ...

A historic rice plantation today is a place of contradictions. It's beauty is undeniable, with its lush gardens, moss-draped live oaks, scenic waterways and beautifully built residences. Many of these ...

BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C. (WCSC) — Berkeley County is acquiring more than 636 acres on the historic Blessing Plantation to preserve what remains of a former rice plantation that carried West African ...

In 1863, abolitionist Harriet Tubman guided a raid that liberated nearly 760 enslaved people working on rice plantations along the Combahee River, near Beaufort, South Carolina. Dr. Edda Fields-Black, ...

Critics say the history of slavery in the U.S. is poorly understood. Even less well known is the complex story of the rice plantations of South Carolina and Georgia. "Unburied, Unmourned, Unmarked: ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Savannah physician and businessman wants to "restore" a 1,000-acre tract of marsh once used used for rice farming. The area, in ...

A CAROLINA RICE PLANTATION OF THE FIFTIES—Herbert Ravenel Sass—Morrow ($10). The Rice Coast of South Carolina is fed by eleven rivers whose names read like one of the patriotic catalogs in Whitman’s ...

With a brush in one hand and her nursing newborn in the other, Michelle Kaye Washington, 34, paints individual rice grains.