![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Sea Islands of South Carolina were home to some of the wealthiest planters in the South. The town also gained a reputation for having the best libraries and preparatory schools in the Southern states. From then until 1860, cotton produced so many men of wealth that one historian described Beaufort as the “wealthiest, most aristocratic and cultivated town of its size in America.” Most of Beaufort’s fine homes were built in that era. But in the early 1790s a new crop was introduced: Sea Island Cotton, the finest cotton grown in America. The city was ruined during the Battle of Beaufort in the Revolutionary War, and it recovered slowly. Freedmen and their teachers (lower right)īeaufort Public Library was not damaged in the Battle of Port RoyalĪfter the battle, the freedmen flocked there, hoping to find an education.īeaufort lies 10 miles inland along the Beaufort River which leads to the Port Royal Sound and empties into Atlantic Ocean midway between Charleston and Savannah, Georgia. ![]()
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