Rice to Ruin
The Jonathan Lucas Family in South Carolina, 1783-1929
In the 1780s Jonathan Lucas, on a journey from his native England, shipwrecked near the Santee Delta of South Carolina, about forty miles north of Charleston. Lucas, the son of English mill owners and builders, found himself, fortuitously, near vast acres of swamp and marshland devoted to rice cultivation. When the labor-intensive milling process could not keep pace with high crop yields, Lucas was asked by planters to build a machine to speed the process. In 1787 he introduced the first highly successful water-pounding rice mill-creating the foundation of an international rice mill dynasty. In Rice to Ruin, Roy Williams III and Alexander Luc…
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Weitere Autoren: Lofton, Alexander Lucas
- ISBN: 978-1-61117-835-7
- EAN: 9781611178357
- Produktnummer: 24874356
- Verlag: University of South Carolina Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 452 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 14'154 KB
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Roy Williams III is a retired South Carolina public school history teacher and administrator. He is the author of two works of local history, Sullivan's Island and Saint James Santee, Plantation Parish: History and Records, 1685-1925. Williams is a docent at Hampton Plantation State Historic Site near McClellanville, South Carolina.
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