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Embankment separating two inland rice fields, image by Carl C. Trettin, Fox Gully near Huger Creek, South Carolina, 2012.

“A View of CHARLES TOWN the Capital of South Carolina in North America,” 1768, engraving by Pierre Charles Canot from original painting by T. Mellish, Charleston, South Carolina, courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

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Cooper-Ashley-Wando River Basin, USGS satellite image, 2008, image courtesy of the United States Geological Survey.

“A Plan of Airyhall, A rice and cotton plantation situated on the south side of the Ashepoo River, St. Bartholomew’s Parish, Colleton County,” South Carolina, May 1849, courtesy of the John McCrady Plat Collection, Charleston County Register of Mesne Conveyance.

Illustration and description of Baga rice cultivation from log by Captain Samuel Gamble on a slave ship Sandown, 1793-94, courtesy of National Maritime Museum.

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Carolina Gold Rice, image by Kay Rentschler, ca. early 2000s, courtesy of the Carolina Gold Rice Foundation.

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Inland rice fields used as a reservoir and irrigation system to regulate water supply, situated in the floodplain swamp at Windsor Plantation, Charleston, South Carolina, 1790, plat courtesy of Charleston County Register of Mesne Conveyance, Charleston, South Carolina, and schematic image by Lillian Trettin.

Dual flanking canals wrapping around Cypress Grove and Back River Plantations, with water flowing left to right, Charleston, South Carolina, 6 August 1792, courtesy of the Ball Family Papers, South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina.

Swamp conversion to inland rice fields, ca. 2000s, courtesy of Samuel B. Hilliard.

Embankment on former inland rice plantation at Caw Caw Interpretive Center, image by Mary Battle, Ravenel, South Carolina, March 2012.

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