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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P7O_prescribed-burning_Hardeeville-SC.html
The industries in Savannah and Port Wentworth, Georgia stand above the horizon, less than three miles away from this overlook. A wildfire in Savannah National Wildlife Refuge could threaten these communities. Wildfire produces tons of smoke and as…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P7I_using-fire-to-benefit-wildlife_Hardeeville-SC.html
This freshwater wetland is a productive wildlife habitat. Scattered ponds diverse vegetation offer water, food, and shelter for countless birds and other wildlife. If left untended however, the marsh will become clogged with a few species of invas…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P7H_managing-water-for-wildlife_Hardeeville-SC.html
Nearly three thousand acres of former rice fields are managed to benefit wildlife on Savannah National Wildlife Refuge. The refuge provides 18 impoundments (reservoirs) with nearly 50 miles of earthen dikes and a variety of trunks (floodgates). Si…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P7E_rice-field-trunk_Hardeeville-SC.html
This water control structure is called a trunk. It is similar to trunks used to manage water flow to and from plantation rice fields. On Savannah National Wildlife Refuge, trunks are operated to set water levels in impoundments (reservoirs).
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P1X_plantation-cistern_Hardeeville-SC.html
This small island of trees was a slave community on Recess Plantation, which bordered Laurel Hill Plantation. Called a hammock, it was a small area of high ground in a sea of wetland rice fields. The round brick structure, just ahead in the woods,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OYN_laurel-hill-plantation_Hardeeville-SC.html
Framed by three massive live oak trees, this grassy knoll was a home site on Laurel Hill Plantation before the Civil War. Savannah National Wildlife Refuge includes portions of 13 former rice plantations. Ten including Laurel Hill, were located in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMHI_tillman-baptist-church_Tillman-SC.html
(Front text) This church, formally established in 1883 as Savin Grove Baptist Church, had its origins in a congregation active before the Civil War just south of present-day Tillman. When Revs. J.F. Morrall and Jonas Trowell reestablished the chur…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHID_jasper-county-jasper-county-courthouse_Ridgeland-SC.html
( Front Text)Jasper CountyThis county was established in 1912 from portions of Beaufort and Hampton counties and is named, it is said, for Sergeant William Jasper, hero of the American Revolution. The same act establishing the new county also desi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHIC_pine-level-baptist-church_Varnville-SC.html
(Text front) This church, organized on January 6, 1872 with Rev. M.H. Shuman as its first minister, held services in members' homes until a sanctuary, built in 1906 was built on this site between 1876 and 1881. A second sanctuary, built in 1906, s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHIB_grays-consolidated-high-school_Early-Branch-SC.html
( Front text )This school, built in 1927 andrebuilt in 1931, was one of manyconstructed in the late 1920s, assmall rural one- or two-room schoolswere consolidated into elementary orhigh schools in towns and cities.Built on land donated by Robert …