For more than a decade now, the goings-on at Brunswick County's fabled Orton Plantation have occurred largely out of the public eye. For nearly a century before Orton was purchased in 2010, however, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

NORTH CHARLESTON — At the swampy headwaters of a tributary that eventually tumbles into the Cooper River sits the remnants of a former inland rice plantation. Here, a 440-acre nature preserve seven ...

In the heart of Louisiana, about 100 miles north of Baton Rouge, lies the rain-soaked farm that lured Konda Mason away from California in 2020. Reflecting on her journey to the South, the entrepreneur ...