Mosquitoes, Landscapes, Ruins, and Artifacts: The Evolution of the Peachtree Plantation Rice Culture Landscape

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Emergence and Development of South Carolina Lowcountry Studies: Papers in Honor of Martha Zierden" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Situated on 481 acres on the South Santee River near McClellanville, South Carolina, an abandoned rice culture landscape lay almost forgotten, waiting patiently for its stories to be told. Preservation students began systematic documentation of the plantation main house ruin and its owners a decade ago; since then, that research has been expanded by applying a multi-scalar approach and utilizing archaeological, remote sensing, and archival data to facilitate a fine-grained analysis of the Peachtree landscape in an attempt to balance its history and shed light on the many enslaved people whose labor and knowledge contributed to the Atlantic World economy. This paper will show how Peachtree contributes to the Santee River Delta plantation landscape and the evolution of rice culture from the settlement period through the late nineteenth century in the South Carolina Low Country Region.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• The Emergence and Development of South Carolina Lowcountry Studies: Papers in Honor of Martha Zierden   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2022

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