One owner, a governor of South Carolina, went bankrupt. Another longtime resident was committed to a sanitarium. Only the future can tell what fate will befall Pennyworth Island's new owner, Chatham ...

The Chicora Wood Plantation was at one time part of the largest rice-producing franchise in the South, producing 1.5 million pounds of rice a year when it was run by Southern politician Robert F.

For more than a decade now, the goings-on at Brunswick County's fabled Orton Plantation have occurred largely out of the public eye. For nearly a century before Orton was purchased in 2010, however, ...

Poco Sabo Plantation recently sold for $16.5 million — the full asking price — just about five months after it was listed. The Colleton County property, roughly 30 miles from downtown Beaufort, was ...

A privately-owned, centuries-old rice plantation in Yemassee just sold for $7.9 million. The 1,010-acre piece of land, known as the Tomotley Plantation, sits along the ACE Basin in Beaufort County. It ...

In 1698, the 13,000-acre Tomotley Plantation sprang up in the South Carolina Lowcountry southwest of Charleston. Using slave labor, it thrived as a rice plantation until after the Civil War, though ...

A centuries-old plantation located on a sprawling 1,640 acres along South Carolina’s picturesque ACE Basin is on the market. Poco Sabo Plantation, listed for $16.5 million, may be attractive to a ...

Plumfield Plantation in Darlington County produces Carolina Plantation brand white, gold and brown rice. It doesn't produce dirty rice, which is a traditional Cajun dish that could be made with any of ...

A historic rice plantation today is a place of contradictions. It's beauty is undeniable, with its lush gardens, moss-draped live oaks, scenic waterways and beautifully built residences. Many of these ...