Sketches of South Carolina (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Sketches of South Carolina To the coast region belongs the credit of introducing civilization to the hitherto unknown but now populous districts of the interior of the State. Of the three points from which the new influences radiated, Beaufort, Charleston and Georgetown, the first named was the pioneer. More than a century before the settlement of "Old Town" on the Ashley River the French Huguenots effected a landing in the neighborhood of Port Royal, probably on the island recently utilized by the United States as a Naval Station, judging by the remains of old landmarks there. This attempt, like that of Sir Walter Raleigh at Roanoke Island near the coast of North Carolina, about twenty years later, resulted disastrously, so that beyond the distinction of being the first landing of European colonists on the soil of South Carolina, the page of history is silent even as to their fate, but in the ferocious hostility that everywhere actuated the religious wars of that period, it is supposed that they perished at the hands of merciless Spaniards further South. The settlement of Jamestown in Virginia, having preceded all attempts at English colonization, was the focus of a considerable distribution of population, the general trend of which was to the South , from thence came an accession to the plantations of the Albemarle and Cape Fear communities. Of course most of the communication between the inhabited points of the coast was by the easy transit of the ocean, and about 1664 the diary of Robert Sandford's voyage from Cape Fear to Port Royal gives a very interesting description of the country and water courses, especially of what was then called St. Georges Bay, now Charleston harbor, and of the friendly Indians with whom he sojourned in the neighborhood of Port Royal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.