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  • 7 - Epilogue

  • Hayden R. Smith, College of Charleston, South Carolina
  • Book:
    Carolina's Golden Fields
    Published online:
    28 October 2019
    Print publication:
    31 October 2019, pp 193-204

  • Summary

    This chapter provides an overview of the rapid decline of commercial inland rice cultivation in the South Carolina Lowcountry after the Civil War. Faced with new questions of labor and economies, land owners looked toward new commodities to produce on the former rice plantations. Timber companies began purchasing these tracts in large numbers and agressively harvesting trees and, once again, dramatically altering the landscape. By the turn of the twentieth century, these tracts became part of the United States Forestry Service or incorporated into the growing development surrounding Charleston.