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Belvidere: A Plantation Memory
Anne Sinkler Fishburne
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Description for Belvidere: A Plantation Memory
Paperback. The rich history of a southern cotton plantation and the many generations of the family it served Num Pages: 184 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 9. Weight in Grams: 222.
“Belvidere is underwater too deep for any eye but that of memory to reach,” begins Anne Sinkler Fishburne reverential recollections of her ancestral home. Located in between Santee River and Eutaw Creek near present day Eutaw Springs, South Carolina, Belvidere plantation once produced Santee long cotton (a hybrid between Upland cotton and Sea Island cotton) and short staple cotton on its nearly 800 acres of rich Lowcountry soil and served as the home of the Sinkler family from the 1770s until the 1940s. An elegant two-story timber house was built on the property in 1803, complete with full-brick basement, brick ... Read more
“Belvidere is underwater too deep for any eye but that of memory to reach,” begins Anne Sinkler Fishburne reverential recollections of her ancestral home. Located in between Santee River and Eutaw Creek near present day Eutaw Springs, South Carolina, Belvidere plantation once produced Santee long cotton (a hybrid between Upland cotton and Sea Island cotton) and short staple cotton on its nearly 800 acres of rich Lowcountry soil and served as the home of the Sinkler family from the 1770s until the 1940s. An elegant two-story timber house was built on the property in 1803, complete with full-brick basement, brick ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
South Carolina, United States
ISBN
9781611175547
SKU
V9781611175547
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About Anne Sinkler Fishburne
Anne Sinkler Fishburne (1886-1983), a daughter of Charles St. George Sinkler and Anne Wickham Porcher Sinkler, was married to William Kershaw Fishburne, a Berkeley County, South Carolina, public-health doctor. She was a favorite niece of Elizabeth Allen Sinkler Coxe and travelled with her on the 1910 Orient Express trip described in this book and on many other expeditions. Anne ... Read more
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