Flat Rock of the Old Time Letters from the Mountains to the Lowcountry, 1837-1939 / edited by Robert B. Cuthbert.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cuthbert, Robert B., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cheeves family--Correspondence.

Middleton family--Correspondence.

Plantation owners--South Carolina--Biography.

Plantation owners.

Families--South Carolina--Charleston--Correspondence.

Families.

Families--North Carolina--Flat Rock (Henderson County)--Correspondence.

Flat Rock (Henderson County, N.C.)--History--20th century.

Flat Rock (Henderson County, N.C.).

Flat Rock (Henderson County, N.C.)--History--19th century.

Genre:

Personal correspondence.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 pages)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016

Place of Publication:

Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A documentary history of a settlement adopted by Lowcountry gentry escaping the heat of weather and war The intoxicating "champagne air" of Flat Rock, North Carolina, captivated residents of lowcountry South Carolina in the nineteenth century because it offered them respite from the sickly, semitropical coastal climate. In Flat Rock of the Old Time, editor Robert B. Cuthbert has mined the collections of the South Carolina Historical Society to publish a documentary history of the place and its people. While many visitors came and went, others chose to become permanent residents. Among the Flat Rock settlers were some of the most distinguished South Carolina gentry: Blakes, Rutledges, Hugers, and Middletons. They established the Episcopal parish church of St. John in the Wilderness Church, where many of them are buried. They also supported a local economy that helped provide livelihoods to native residents who supplied them with goods and services. Visiting each other daily, they swapped news and gossip, sharing their joys and burdens. Lowcountry families refugeed to Flat Rock during the Civil War, thereby escaping the devastation of the coast but not the revolutionary consequences of the war, such as emancipation, occupation, and economic collapse. And through it all they wrote letters. Some refugee-residents sent off missives every day, describing the delicious weather, the activities of their neighbors, and the entwining relationships of family, faith, business, and recreation that sustained Flat Rock. The century chronicled in Flat Rock of the Old Times is viewed with a combination of nostalgia and clear-sightedness, not only by Cuthbert but also by his correspondents. Guided by the editor's copious introduction, annotations, and textual apparatus, readers experience the conjunction of people and place that was Flat Rock.

Contents:

1837-1852

1862-1865

1865-1866

1870-1879

1880-1889

1890-1899

1900-1912

1914-1939.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781611176476

1611176476

OCLC:

946277654