THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF DATAW ISLAND ARCHITECTURAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS AT THE SAMS PLANTATION COMPLEX This report documents architectural and archaeological data recovery that has been conducted at five historic…
THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF DATAW ISLAND ARCHITECTURAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS AT THE SAMS PLANTATION COMPLEX This report documents architectural and archaeological data recovery that has been conducted at five historic…
THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF DATAW ISLAND ARCHITECTURAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS AT THE SAMS PLANTATION COMPLEX This report documents architectural and archaeological data recovery that has been conducted at five historic…
THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF DATAW ISLAND ARCHITECTURAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS AT THE SAMS PLANTATION COMPLEX This report documents architectural and archaeological data recovery that has been conducted at five historic…
The history of Sea Island Cotton was presented by Bill Riski of the Dataw Historic Foundation on Sep 30, 2019. In the late 1700’s, a superior type of cotton made…
In 2016, after a decade of work to bring it to life, the Dataw Island History & Learning Center opened next to the Sams Plantation Ruins. The museum is the…
This presentation on the Sams of Florida was given by Joe Roney in June of 2019. He tells the fascinating story of how Sams descendant M. Seabrook Sams and 3 of his step-cousins walked from Wadmalaw Island, SC to Merritt Island, FL, a distance of over 400 miles, in the 1870’s to start new lives.
The following Chain of Title lists all of the documented owners of Dataw Island from 1682 up through the purchase of Dataw Island by ALCOA South Carolina, Inc. in 1983.
This short news article by Chlotilde R. Martin in 1930 for The News and Courier, Charleston, SC captures the public’s fascination with this dynamic woman. “For three years the people of Beaufort have watched the doings of Miss Kate Gleason with curiosity. If there were no other reason except that one of the world’s multi-millionaires had come to live among them, that fact would be sufficient to hold their interest. But…”
