Tag: Jehossee Island
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Jehossee Island in the News
Post and Courier reporter interviews U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Archaeologist, Rick Kanaski on Jehossee Island in February, 2022. This Sunday’s Post and Courier profiled ongoing preservation efforts at Jehossee Island. The front-page article and accompanying editorial highlighted coalition work the PSC has spearheaded to safeguard the important history of the former rice plantation once inhabited by one…
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Editorial: Jehossee Island is a priceless time capsule. Care for its contents.
Read the original Post and Courier article here. Contractor Beekman Webb checks his phone for an earlier image of the Jehossee Island Overseer’s House (in background), which he helped fix up. Robert Behre/Staff The role of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is to conserve, protect and enhance our nation’s fish, wildlife and plants, so…
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On SC’s Jehossee Island, rare remnants of history and big potential for research
Read the original Post and Courier article here. Rick Kanaski, regional archaeologist and historic preservation officer with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, walks toward the former overseer’s house on Jehossee Island on Feb. 28, 2022. Gavin McIntyre/Staff JEHOSSEE ISLAND — This uninhabited island in the Lowcountry’s ACE Basin was the site of one of…
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Preservation Efforts on Jehossee Island
Drone photography of the c. 1830 Jehossee Island overseer’s house and rice mill complex taken in March 2021. Courtesy of Brent R. Fortenberry, Ph.D, RPA. To fully understand Charleston’s history, it is critical to study and interpret the under-documented landscape of slavery and rice cultivation in the Lowcountry. That’s why the PSC is working alongside…