When Jimmy Kerr was a boy, he was playing cowboys and Indians with buddies when he stumbled across an old brick foundation nestled deep into the woods on his family’s Johns Island land. For many years ...

SURFSIDE BEACH, S.C. (WMBF) - The Town of Surfside Beach, along with its historical society and other neighbors recently unveiled plaques and markers in an effort to preserve its history. At the ...

The Indigo Road Project is an art installation conceived by costume director Brooke Stanton and made by Brandeis students from January-October 2023. It honors the history of slaves working on indigo ...

Most histories about the first successful indigo crop in North America never mention the man who made it possible. John Quash Williams was born in the colony of South Carolina sometime between 1720-25 ...

By 1979, South Carolina's only known surviving indigo vats were in Otranto Plantation in Berkeley County, which was being redeveloped as a subdivision. Of its three series of vats, two were considered ...