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The history of Beaufort County, South Carolina, Bridging the Sea Islands' past and present : 1893-2006, Lawrence S. Rowland and Stephen R. Wise ; foreword by Alexander Moore, Volume 3

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-434) and index

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The history of Beaufort County, South Carolina

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Lawrence S. Rowland and Stephen R. Wise ; foreword by Alexander Moore

Bridging the Sea Islands' past and present : 1893-2006

This third volume of the History of Beaufort County by Lawrence S. Rowland and Stephen R. Wise encompasses the remaining 113 years of the 500-year chronicle of the legendary South Carolina Sea Islands. Bridging the Sea Islands' Past and Present, 1893-2006 begins with the devastating Sea Island Hurricane of 1893, one of the worst natural disasters in American history. The storm was followed by a hurricane of violence, political and social revolution, economic chaos, and ideological turmoil that battered twentieth-century Beaufort and the world. Paradoxically the twentieth century was also an epoch of nearly unbroken scientific and medical progress, technological innovation, cultural experimentation, and the expansion of democratic institutions throughout the world. Modern Beaufort County has been a testing ground for the reunion of North and South in the aftermaths of the Civil War, Great Depression, and defeated Jim Crow laws. The great exodus of African Americans away from Beaufort County and the post-World War II sunbelt immigration transformed Beaufort County from a majority black population in 1900 to a majority white population in 1960. Perhaps the county's most representative immigrant experience has been that of retirees and resort-home owners, a phenomenon that began in the late nineteenth century as wealthy northerners--financiers, industrialists, and industrial farmers--began purchasing former plantations and transformed them into private hunting preserves. The new Beaufortonians revolutionized Lowcountry life and culture as they brought new forms of economic enterprise, social and cultural values, and worldviews different from those that had shaped Beaufort County for centuries. Monumental political events are fully addressed from an insider's point of view, but, amid all the frontiers, storms, and demographic revolutions, Rowland and Wise have also provided a business history of the American South. Enterprise and entrepreneurship, whether successful or failed, link together all the themes and unite all the actors found in this work. Here readers meet Robert Smalls, Thomas E. Miller, George Waterhouse, Niels Christensen, Thomas Talbird, Tillie O'Dell, Isabella Glen, William Keyserling, Kate Gleason, Harriet Keyserling, Charles Fraser, and Bobby Ginn--active agents of change in politics, business, and culture. Indeed Rowland and Wise have not only chronicled the lives and times of these people but have also been active participants in the stories they tell. Rowland is a Beaufort native with centuries-old Lowcountry lineage. Wise, an Ohio transplant, is a scholar of the Civil War and the local history of his adopted home

The great Sea Island Hurricane of 1893 and its aftermath -- Beaufort economy at the turn of the century -- Economic decline and adjustment -- Beaufort politics at the turn of the century -- Political eccentricities on the Sea Islands -- Social institutions in the Victorian Age -- The great fire and violent crime -- Beaufort's African American community at the turn of the century -- World War I, Parris Island, and the Progressive Era -- Economy of the 1920s and the end of the Progressive Era -- Low life in hard times -- High life in hard times -- Depression and the New Deal -- World War II at home and abroad -- The postwar boom in Beaufort CountyList of illustrations: Charleston packet steamer Pilot Boy and phosphate tugs Juno and Ivanhoe -- Bay Street looking West after the 1893 storm -- Phosphate tug Weymouth -- St. Helena Island homestead flattened by the 1893 hurricane -- Same homestead rebuilt by relief workers -- Thomas E. Miller -- Robert Smalls -- William J. Whipper -- James Wigg -- Isaiah R. Reed -- Memorial Day parade -- First African Baptist Church -- Charleston & Western Carolina Railroad depot -- L.P. Maghione's Port Royal Oyster Canning Company -- Port Royal docks with 4-masted schooner -- Parris Island stem launch -- Junction of Craven and Carteret streets, 1907 -- Lady's Island ferry landing -- The Beaufort Volunteer Artillery -- The Attaquin -- Dr. York Bailey -- Bay Street c. 1915 -- Sea Island Hotel c. 1910 -- Christensen family at Bay Point c. 1910 -- First Beaufort High School -- Fort Fremont compound c. 1910 -- Bay Street -- Walter Richardson's new house on Carteret Street -- Beaufort Veneer and Package Company -- Segregated Beaufort railroad depot -- Beaufort baseball team c. 1910 -- Bay Street looking West -- Bay Street in the auto age c. 1920 -- Rosa Cooley and Grace House at Penn School -- Beaufort Arsenal, 1910 -- Robert Smalls High School -- Beaufort waterfront, 1910 -- Bay Street c. 1920 -- Community Club on Carteret Street -- New Charleston & Western Carolina Railroad depot -- Memorial Day, 1921 -- Beaufort County courthouse -- Golden Eagle Tavern -- Edison Marshall and his books -- Beaufort waterfront gasoline launches -- Lady's Island Bridge -- Savannah steamboat at the Gulf Dock -- John Mark Verdier House -- Port Royal Naval Station -- USS Indiana in dry dock -- Officers' Candidates School -- Baseball game on Parris Island, 1920 -- First airplane on Parris Island -- "Iron Mike" -- Dedication of the Ribaut Monument on Parris Islant -- USAS Los Angeles -- Yemassee Junction during World War II -- Graduated marines -- President Franklin Roosevelt visiting Parris Island, 1943 -- First Beaufort Memorial Hospital -- Ventura PV-1 bombers at the Naval Air Station -- Beaufort waterfront, 1963 -- Charles Fraser, Hilton Head Island

Bridging the Sea Islands' past and present, 1893-2006