The Wicked S.C. Lowcountry column highlights the rich and “wickedly” interesting history and culture of the ACE Basin area and surrounding Lowcountry.
The South Carolina Lowcountry, primarily the ACE Basin watershed area, is facing new development in the form of massive data centers and power plants and the underground pipelines that feed them. With this in mind, the purpose of the Wicked S.C. Lowcountry column is now to highlight the rich and “wickedly” interesting history and culture of the ACE Basin area and surrounding Lowcountry.
Perhaps if we understand more about our history, we can better shape our future, and if we know more about the ACE Basin, we can work harder to protect it.
Civil War hero and Reconstruction-era statesman Robert Smalls honored
The ACE Basin’s history continues to be memorialized, and now, more than 161 years after hijacking a Confederate ship for a historic joyride to freedom, a Civil War hero and Reconstruction-era statesman is being honored with a monument in South Carolina’s capital city…