Issue 03 – There is only one left in South Carolina…and we have it!
A story about the Dairy/Blade house in the Sams Family Plantation ruins complex.
William Sams, grandson of Colonel John “Tuscarora Jack” Barnwell, was born in South Carolina on April 18, 1741. With the fall of Charleston and Beaufort during the American Revolution, William was forced to leave his home on Wadmalaw Island and purchased Dataw Island in 1783. At Dataw, he began to grow Sea Island cotton. It was cotton that made the Sams family wealthy and the Beaufort region “the exclusive home of the most exclusive few of that most exclusive aristocracy.”
Articles from this era address the period 1783 to 1865.
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.