USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Yes, South Carolina’s rice industry collapsed more than a century ago, but traditional rice cultivation continued to persist on a much smaller scale. 10. Rice is again being commercially grown in South Carolina.

Detailed explanation-2: -Carolina Plantation Rice comes to you from the only colonial plantation in the Carolinas to grow rice for commercial sale: Plumfield Plantation on the Great Pee Dee River. This special grain has an aroma and taste that you won’t find in any normal grocery store variety.

Detailed explanation-3: -By 1708, the South Carolina colony featured a black population majority. Inland rice cultivation began as a relatively simple process of damming streams to form reservoirs and clearing land downstream to plant rice. As demand for the crop grew and the value of land increased, the system became more complex.

Detailed explanation-4: -Rice remained a dominant commodity on the coastal rivers of South Carolina until the end of the Civil War, when production started a long decline due to a loss of labor and working capital, and aided by several severe storms. In the early 1900’s rice farming disappeared from the state all together.