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1862 United States Coast Survey map of the Coast of South Carolina from Charleston to Hilton Head cropped to show Edisto Island, White Point, the Dawhoo River, and Willstown. Edisto Island was largely abandoned by planters in November 1861 and in December 1861, escaped slaves began setting up their own refugee camps there.
The first group of Europeans who succeeded in settling Edisto Island were English people who settled the island in the late 1600s and early 1700s. Though it is unclear when the modern name was adopted, the island was called "Locke Island", after the English philosopher and Secretary to the Lords Proprietors of Carolina John Locke , during the ...
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Spencer, Charles. Edisto Island, 1861 to 2006: Ruin, Recovery and Rebirth. Arcadia Publishing, 2008. Stone, H. David. Vital Rails: The Charleston & Savannah Railroad and the Civil War in Coastal South Carolina. Univ of South Carolina Press, 2008. Tomblin, Barbara. Bluejackets and Contrabands: African Americans and the Union Navy.
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Prospect Hill is an historic plantation house on Edisto Island, South Carolina. The two-story Federal house is significant for its architecture and ties to the production of sea island cotton. [2] [3] Constructed about 1800 for Ephraim Baynard, it sits on a bluff overlooking the South Edisto River. In 1860, William Grimball Baynard owned ...
The Paul Hamilton House, commonly referred to as the Brick House Ruins, is the ruin of a 1725 plantation house on Edisto Island, South Carolina, that burned in 1929.It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1970 for the unusual architecture of the surviving walls, which is partly based on French Huguenot architecture of the period.
Paul Grimball House Ruins is a historic archaeological site located at Edisto Island, Charleston County, South Carolina. The stuccoed tabby house was built about 1682. In August 1686, the house was occupied, sacked, and possibly burned by the Spanish on a raid up the North Edisto River. The remains consist of a 12-foot (3.7 m) high corner ...