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Golden Grains of White Rice: Planting on the Lower Cape Fear

Record #:
21092
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Abstract:
Wealthy planters from the St. James Goose Creek Parish, 20 miles north of Charleston, established a permanent settlement in the Lower Cape Fear in the 1720s and introduced rice as a new agricultural staple in North Carolina.
Source:
North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 50 Issue 4, Oct 1973, p365-393, il, map