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George M. Jewett
George M. Jewett's 2008 Web Site Maybe it was the generation I was born in, but I had come to realize that I knew surprisingly little of my parents upbringing and life before I entered it! I do not believe even today parents sit down with their children and take the time to tell them interesting stories of their growing up. My daughter, Kristianne, has many times asked me to email her stories of my younger life and I have given her bits and pieces but she was always looking f
Don Schueler
Mar 3114 min read
When the Lowcountry Became America’s Private Hunting Preserve
The definitive book Northern Money Southern Land by Chlotilde R. Martin By the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the South Carolina Lowcountry had quietly transformed into one of America’s most exclusive sporting landscapes. Former rice plantations, long battered by war, emancipation, and economic decline, found new life as private hunting preserves. Northern industrialists and financiers—the architects of the Gilded Age—were drawn south by abundant wildlife, mil
Don Schueler
Dec 23, 20255 min read
Rose Hill Plantation, Bluffton SC
Rose Hill Plantation House, also known as Rose Hill Mansion, is a historic Carpenter Gothic house located on US 278 in Bluffton, Beaufort County, South Carolina. Construction began in 1858 for Dr. John Kirk and his wife, Caroline. However, the process was interrupted by the Civil War and was not completed until after World War II, when architect Willis Irvin renovated and finished the home for John Sturgeon and his wife, Florence. The house was added to the National Register
Don Schueler
Dec 19, 20257 min read
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