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1227730 [4] Website. www.townofyemassee.org. 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.
July 2, 2022 at 5:00 AM. More than 236,000 acres of rice fields spanning 160 miles once covered coastal South Carolina, according to a recent mapping project that used modern tools to document the ...
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 ...
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.
During his tenure in office, South Carolina's U.S. Senator Fritz Hollings procured $53.8 million for conservation efforts in the ACE Basin. [3] The task force celebrated 30 years of conservation efforts in December 2019. [4] In November 2014, National Geographic had a featured article celebrating 25 years of conservation efforts in the ACE ...
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 ...
NRHP reference No. 76001693 [1] Added to NRHP. June 3, 1976. 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 ...
The Combahee River (/ kəmˈbiː / kəm-BEE) [1] is a short blackwater river in the southern Lowcountry region of South Carolina formed at the confluence of the Salkehatchie and Little Salkehatchie rivers near the Islandton community of Colleton County, South Carolina. Part of its lower drainage basin combines with the Ashepoo River and the ...