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The history of Pawleys Island, South Carolina, can be summed up in four words: rice, sea, golf, and hammocks.The rivers threading through coastal South Carolina created an ideal environment for cultivating rice, and by the mid-18th century, vast plantations were producing profitable crops and wealthy landowners. But those plantations also produced malaria-carrying mosquitoes, so the landowners sent their families to the seashore for the summer and built the first houses on Pawleys Island starting in 1822. The end of slavery doomed the rice culture, and the old plantations were sold to rich Northerners for hunting and fishing retreats. By the 1960s, many of the old plantations were turned into golf courses, reviving the economy. But the beating heart of Pawleys Island remains the rhythm of the sea and what one early visitor called'the only beach in the world.'

Author

Steve Roberts and Lee Brockington

Publisher

Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781439664841

Subjects

Photography, Historical Fiction, History