Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Savannah physician and businessman wants to "restore" a 1,000-acre tract of marsh once used used for rice farming. The area, in ...

The University of South Carolina is once again looking to unload a historically significant but fast-fading former rice plantation it owns on the Santee Delta. The process has proven to be as ...

The South Carolina Lowcountry, from Hilton Head to the upper reaches of the Waccamaw River near Myrtle Beach, once was the Rice Kingdom. Plantations were built all along the intertidal waterways where ...

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, ...

BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C. (WCSC) — Berkeley County is acquiring more than 636 acres on the historic Blessing Plantation to preserve what remains of a former rice plantation that carried West African ...