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

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

Portrait of Louisa Carolina Graves nee Colleton (b.1763 - d.1822), Unknown artist. Formerly in the collection of Christian Dior (b.1905 - d.1957) at the Chateau de la Colle Noire, Montauroux. Try out the podcast above for a great deep dive into Louisa's history. The Colleton family, one of the prominent families in South Carolina's history, played a significant role in shaping the cultural and economic landscape of the Lowcountry. Arriving in the 17th century, they became inf