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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Savannah physician and businessman wants to "restore" a 1,000-acre tract of marsh once used used for rice farming. The area, in Bryan County near the Chatham County border, is encircled by the ...

Critics say the history of slavery in the U.S. is poorly understood. Even less well known is the complex story of the rice plantations of South Carolina and Georgia. "Unburied, Unmourned, Unmarked: ...

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 ...