"Standing like a beacon along the famed Coastal Highway (US 17), this chimney is all that remains of a steam-powered rice mill operated in the 1850s by Captain Pierce Butler. In Antebellum Georgia, rice plantations were the backbone of coastal agriculture, buttressed by a large slave population, but the coming of the Civil War and its ensuing changes helped end this era in
Georgia history." Via T
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