Beaufort, SC
2 first-person accounts from the Revolutionary era.
Historical Voices
The Calculation at the Water's Edge
The British ships had been in the sound for weeks. Everyone on the plantation knew it. The question was not whether the ships were there — you could see them from the edge of the marsh — but what it m...
Modern Voices
The Houses the Indigo Built
When visitors come to Beaufort, they come for the houses. The antebellum architecture is genuinely extraordinary — a concentration of Greek Revival, Federal, and vernacular styles that makes the histo...
