Go around 20 miles up the Savannah River towards Ebenezer Creek and you’ll probably miss the patch of trees once known as the Bear Creek Fortress. The name might fool you a bit, the fortress wouldn’t ...
In hindsight, the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge’s acquisition of Abercorn Island, which was prompted by the commitments to wetland mitigation during the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project (SHEP), ...
The Saturday afternoon was muggy, and the Third Ward corner at Live Oak and Alabama was alive with the usual urban noises when the Young Maroons claimed the empty gazebo. Under the shade of the ...
In the years before the Civil War, when ships landed in Charleston with captured, enslaved individuals on board, some of those individuals were put to work on plantations. Others were taken inland to ...
TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...
Escaping slavery in Portsmouth often meant finding passage on a boat headed to Philadelphia — or slipping into the vast wet wilderness of the Great Dismal Swamp. Known as maroons, communities of ...
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