Every year the Historic Beaufort Foundation gives its Historic Preservation Honor Award to celebrate successful and exemplary historic preservation projects around Beaufort County. This March the Dataw Historic Foundation received a 2011 Preservation Award from the HBF, at its Annual Meeting, for its preservation and stewardship of the Sams Plantation Ruins.
The early owners of Dataw from 1680 through 1755.
The early owners of Dataw from 1755 through 1861, the beginning of the Civil War.
A story about the Dairy/Blade house in the Sams Family Plantation ruins complex.
A story about how ice was harvested in New England and shipped to Dataw Island.
BB Sams had a curious way of naming his 15 children.
More information about the 15 children and where they are buried. CLement Charles Sams is buried in Chester, SC.
From an Indigo plantation to a highly successful Sea Island Cotton plantation.
The legend of a giant Indian named King Datha, the source of Dataw Island’s name.
The Rev. James Julius Sams Memoirs of Datha. Written circa 1905, they tell about his life as a child on Dataw. His reflections reveal how close he felt to his brother Horace Hann Sams, and why Horace’s death in the Civil War cut him so deeply.
From the President, Preserving Our Past: Restoring a Puzzling Crypt, Opening of Dataw Histroy Display at Welcome Center.
Fall 2010 – 25th Anniversary, DHF Fish Fry, 12,000 Years of Dataw History in 20 minutes, National Register of Historic Places, and more…