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Yemassee, South Carolina. / 32.700°N 80.850°W / 32.700; -80.850. Yemassee ( / ˈjɛməsiː /) is a small Lowcountry town in Beaufort and Hampton counties in the U.S. state of South Carolina. The population was 1,027 at the 2010 census. [ 5] Yemassee is near the borders of Colleton and Jasper counties. The town is divided by the county ...
The project, led by a Yemassee-based wildlife foundation, illustrates the human cost of South Carolina’s slave rice culture. Built on backs of slaves: New mapping shows clearer picture of SC’s ...
The name of the Yamasees survives in the town of Yemassee, South Carolina, in the Lowcountry close to where the Yamasee War began. It is also used for the title of William Gilmore Simms ' 1835 historical novel The Yemassee: A Romance of Carolina , and by extension, Yemassee , the official literary journal of the University of South Carolina .
Bloody Point was a part of the land settled by European colonists in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. [2] It was the site of a violent battle in 1715, during the Yemassee War. [3] After the island had been divided up by Europeans in the 18th century, the Spanish began to grow uncomfortable having the English so close to their Florida ...
A retiree fishing on one of South Carolina’s islands had to be rescued after he accidentally stepped in the notorious coastal quicksand known as “pluff mud.”. It happened around 11 a.m ...
The Yamasee War (also spelled Yamassee [1] or Yemassee) was a conflict fought in South Carolina from 1715 to 1717 between British settlers from the Province of Carolina and the Yamasee, who were supported by a number of allied Native American peoples, including the Muscogee, Cherokee, Catawba, Apalachee, Apalachicola, Yuchi, Savannah River Shawnee, Congaree, Waxhaw, Pee Dee, Cape Fear, Cheraw ...
Auldbrass Plantation or Auldbrass is located in Beaufort County, South Carolina, near the town of Yemassee. [ 2][ 3] The guest house, stable complex and kennels were designed and built by Frank Lloyd Wright from 1939 to 1941. It is one of two structures that Wright designed in South Carolina. [ 4]
Second Battle of Pocotaligo. / 32.63694°N 80.86333°W / 32.63694; -80.86333. The Second Battle of Pocotaligo, or Battle of Pocotaligo Bridge, or Battle of Yemassee, often referred to as simply the Battle of Pocotaligo, took place during the American Civil War on October 22, 1862 near Yemassee, South Carolina. [6] [7]