This third volume of The History of Beaufort County by Rowland,
Lawrence S. 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.
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