James Santee News Today

Today, much of the old French Santee region is again covered with a forest of pine and hardwood trees, that of the Francis Marion National Forest. Berkeley County has this

The earliest French attempts at settlement in Carolina followed soon after the repeal of the Edict of Nantes in 1562 when a group of Huguenots, led by Jean Ribault, was

The St. Stephen’s Parish Church was built in 1754. Three ships filled with eager adventurers from England and Barbados landed on the Carolina coast in 1670 at the junction of the two rivers that formed the Atlantic. They named these rivers after the Lord Proprietor who funded their venture, Lord Anthony Ashley Cooper. They named

John Palmer was born in 1750, the eldest son of “Turpentine John” Pamor, who I told you about recently. He married Mary Anne Cahusac (pronounced ku-zak) from St. James Santee

Last fall, we urged Charleston County zoning officials not to allow a new sand mine operation on 20 acres next door to the St. James Santee Elementary-Middle School, and our

Echaw in early records was spelled in various ways: Itshaw, Itchaw, Hitcha, most probably given name to the creek by the Sewee tribe of Native Americans. French Santee authors tell