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Edisto Island, the Glossary

Edisto Island is one of South Carolina's Sea Islands, the larger part of which lies in Charleston County, with its southern tip in Colleton County.^[1]

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Gullah country
Populated coastal places in South Carolina
South Carolina Sea Islands

African Americans

African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

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African diaspora

The global African diaspora is the worldwide collection of communities descended from people from Africa, predominantly in the Americas.

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Alexander Bache U.S. Coast Survey Line

Alexander Bache U.S. Coast Survey Line is a historic geodetic survey line located at Edisto Island, Charleston County, South Carolina.

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Area codes 843 and 854 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for a portion of the U.S. state of South Carolina that comprises roughly the eastern third and the southern tip.

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Bailey's Store

Bailey's Store is one of the last nineteenth century commercial structures on Edisto Island, Charleston County, South Carolina.

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Battle of Secessionville

The Battle of Secessionville (or the First Battle of James Island) was fought on June 16, 1862, during the American Civil War.

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Battle of the Wilderness

The Battle of the Wilderness was fought on May 5–7, 1864, during the American Civil War.

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Berkeley County, South Carolina

Berkeley County is a county in the U.S. state of South Carolina.

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Brick House Ruins

The Paul Hamilton House, commonly referred to as the Brick House Ruins, is the ruin of a 1725 plantation house on Edisto Island, South Carolina, that burned in 1929.

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Brookland Plantation

Brookland Plantation (often written as Brooklands Plantation) is a large plantation along Shingle Creek on Edisto Island, South Carolina.

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Cassina Point

Cassina Point (also known as the Hopkinson House and Cassina Point Plantation) was built in 1847 for Carolina Lafayette Seabrook and her husband, James Hopkinson.

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Catawba people

The Catawba, also known as Issa, Essa or Iswä but most commonly Iswa (Catawba: Ye Iswąˀ), are a federally recognized tribe of Native Americans, known as the Catawba Indian Nation. Their current lands are in South Carolina, on the Catawba River, near the city of Rock Hill.

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Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating population information about the members of a given population.

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Charleston County, South Carolina

Charleston County is located in the U.S. state of South Carolina along the Atlantic coast.

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Charleston, South Carolina

Charleston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, and the principal city in the Charleston metropolitan area. Edisto Island and Charleston, South Carolina are Populated coastal places in South Carolina.

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Colleton County, South Carolina

Colleton County is a county in the Lowcountry region of the U.S. state of South Carolina.

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Crawford's Plantation House

Crawford's Plantation House is a plantation house on Edisto Island, South Carolina of architectural significance.

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Cusabo

The Cusabo were a group of American Indian tribes who lived along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean in what is now South Carolina, approximately between present-day Charleston and south to the Savannah River, at the time of European colonization.

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Delicious Miss Brown

Delicious Miss Brown is an American cooking show that premiered on Food Network on July 28, 2019.

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Eastern Time Zone

The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, and the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico.

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Edisto Beach State Park

Edisto Beach State Park is located on the coast of South Carolina, south of Charleston, near the town of Edisto Beach in Colleton County.

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Edisto Beach, South Carolina

Edisto Beach is a town in Colleton County, South Carolina, United States. Edisto Island and Edisto Beach, South Carolina are Populated coastal places in South Carolina.

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Edisto Island Baptist Church

Edisto Island Baptist Church is a historic African-American Baptist church on Edisto Island in Charleston County, South Carolina.

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Edisto Island during the American Civil War

Edisto Island during the American Civil War was the location of a number of minor engagements and for a time of a large colony of escaped African-American slaves during the American Civil War (1861–1865).

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Edisto Island Presbyterian Church

Edisto Island Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church on Edisto Island, South Carolina.

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Edisto River

The Edisto River is one of the longest free-flowing blackwater rivers in North America, flowing over 250 meandering miles from its sources in Saluda and Edgefield counties, to its Atlantic Ocean mouth at Edisto Beach, South Carolina.

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Eleanor Frances Lattimore

Eleanor Frances Lattimore (June 30, 1904, Shanghai, China – May 12, 1986, Raleigh, North Carolina) was an American writer and illustrator born in what was called the American Compound in Shanghai and raised in China where her father, David Lattimore, taught English at a Chinese government university.

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Emily Meggett

Emily Meggett (November 19, 1932 – April 21, 2023) was an American Geechee-Gullah community leader, chef, and author who co-wrote Gullah Geechee Home Cooking: Recipes from the Matriarch of Edisto Island in 2022.

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Federal Information Processing Standards

The Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) of the United States are a set of publicly announced standards that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed for use in computer situs of non-military United States government agencies and contractors.

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Fig Island

Fig Island, also known as 38CH42, is an archaeological site on the Atlantic Coast of South Carolina, consisting of three shell rings.

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Food Network

Food Network is an American basic cable channel owned by Television Food Network, G.P., a joint venture and general partnership between Warner Bros. Discovery Networks (which holds a 69% ownership stake of the network) and Nexstar Media Group (which owns the remaining 31%).

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Freedmen's Bureau

The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, usually referred to as simply the Freedmen's Bureau, was a U.S. government agency of early post American Civil War Reconstruction, assisting freedmen (i.e., former slaves) in the South.

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Frogmore (Edisto Island, South Carolina)

Frogmore is a plantation house on Edisto Island, South Carolina, built by Waccamaw's Dr.

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Geographic Names Information System

The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database of name and location information about more than two million physical and cultural features throughout the United States and its territories; the associated states of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau; and Antarctica.

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Gullah

The Gullah are a subgroup of the African American ethnic group, who predominantly live in the Lowcountry region of the U.S. states of South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida within the coastal plain and the Sea Islands.

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Gullah language

Gullah (also called Gullah-English, Sea Island Creole English, and Geechee) is a creole language spoken by the Gullah people (also called "Geechees" within the community), an African American population living in coastal regions of South Carolina and Georgia (including urban Charleston and Savannah) as well as extreme northeastern Florida and the extreme southeast of North Carolina.

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Hephzibah Jenkins Townsend's Tabby Oven Ruins

Hephzibah Jenkins Townsend's Tabby Oven Ruins is a historic archaeological site located at Edisto Island, Charleston County, South Carolina.

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Hutchinson House (Edisto Island, South Carolina)

The Hutchinson House is the oldest identified house on Edisto Island, South Carolina associated with the black community after the American Civil War.

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Indigenous peoples

There is no generally accepted definition of Indigenous peoples, although in the 21st century the focus has been on self-identification, cultural difference from other groups in a state, a special relationship with their traditional territory, and an experience of subjugation and discrimination under a dominant cultural model.

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James Jamerson

James Lee Jamerson (January 29, 1936 – August 2, 1983) was an American bass player.

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Jasper Johns

Jasper Johns (born May 15, 1930) is an American painter, sculptor, draftsman, and printmaker.

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John Locke

John Locke (29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism".

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Kardea Brown

Kardea Brown is an American chef and caterer known for being the host of the television show Delicious Miss Brown on the Food Network.

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Lauder Greenway family

The Lauder Greenway family is a Scottish-American family whose influence on, and involvement in, American political and economic affairs dates from the 1640s through the contemporary era.

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List of counties in South Carolina

The U.S. state of South Carolina is made up of 46 counties, the maximum allowable by state law.

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List of sovereign states

The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.

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Lord proprietor

A lord proprietor is a person granted a royal charter for the establishment and government of an English colony in the 17th century.

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Lucia Murchison

Lucia Landrum Murchison (December 18, 1900 – January 31, 1983) was an American social worker and clubwoman.

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Marriage

Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognised union between people called spouses.

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Marsh Hen Mill

Marsh Hen Mill is a company on Edisto Island, in the US state of South Carolina, best known for its traditionally manufactured heirloom grits.

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Micah Jenkins

Micah Jenkins (December 1, 1835 – May 6, 1864) was a Confederate general in the American Civil War, mortally wounded by friendly fire at the Battle of the Wilderness.

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Middleton's Plantation

Middleton's Plantation, also known as Chisolm's Plantation and The Launch, is a historic plantation house located near Edisto Island, Charleston County, South Carolina.

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Motown

Motown is an American record label owned by the Universal Music Group.

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National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic value".

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, sometimes called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans, are the Indigenous peoples native to portions of the land that the United States is located on.

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Oak Island (South Carolina)

Oak Island, also known as the William Seabrook, Jr.

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Old House Plantation

Old House Plantation, also known as Daniel Heyward Plantation, is a historic plantation site and grave located near Ridgeland, Jasper County, South Carolina.

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Patti LuPone

Patti Ann LuPone (born April 21, 1949) is an American actress and singer best known for her work in musical theater.

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Paul Grimball House Ruins

Paul Grimball House Ruins is a historic archaeological site located at Edisto Island, Charleston County, South Carolina.

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Per capita income

Per capita income (PCI) or average income measures the average income earned per person in a given area (city, region, country, etc.) in a specified year.

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Peter's Point Plantation

Peters Point Plantation is a historic structure located on Edisto Island, South Carolina. It was built by Isaac Jenkins Mikell in 1840 at the intersection of St.

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Population density

Population density (in agriculture: standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area.

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Poverty threshold

The poverty threshold, poverty limit, poverty line, or breadline is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country.

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Presbyterian Manse (Edisto Island, South Carolina)

Presbyterian Manse is a historic wooden building on Edisto Island, South Carolina.

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Project Muse

Project MUSE (Museums Uniting with Schools in Education), a non-profit collaboration between libraries and publishers, is an online database of peer-reviewed academic journals and electronic books.

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Prospect Hill (Charleston County, South Carolina)

Prospect Hill is an historic plantation house on Edisto Island, South Carolina.

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Race and ethnicity in the United States census

In the United States census, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) define a set of self-identified categories of race and ethnicity chosen by residents, with which they most closely identify.

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Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also known as the GOP (Grand Old Party), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

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Saint Helena Island (South Carolina)

St. Edisto Island and Saint Helena Island (South Carolina) are Gullah country and Populated coastal places in South Carolina.

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Sea Islands

The Sea Islands are a chain of over a hundred tidal and barrier islands on the Atlantic Ocean coast of the Southeastern United States, between the mouths of the Santee and St. Johns rivers along South Carolina, Georgia and Florida.

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Seaside Plantation House

Seaside Plantation House, also known as Locksley Hall, is a historic plantation house located at Edisto Island, Colleton County, South Carolina.

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Seaside School

Seaside School, also known as Seaside Colored School, is a historic school building for African-American children located at Edisto Island, Charleston County, South Carolina.

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South Carolina

South Carolina is a state in the coastal Southeastern region of the United States.

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Spanish Mount Point

Spanish Mount Point is a historic archaeological site located at Edisto Beach State Park, Edisto Island, Colleton County, South Carolina.

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Summerville, South Carolina

Summerville is a town in the U.S. state of South Carolina situated mostly in Dorchester County, with small portions in Berkeley and Charleston counties.

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Sunnyside (Edisto Island, South Carolina)

Sunnyside, also known as the Townsend Mikell House, is a historic plantation house located at Edisto Island, Charleston County, South Carolina.

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The Funk Brothers

The Funk Brothers were a group of Detroit-based session musicians who performed the backing to most Motown recordings from 1959 until the company moved to Los Angeles in 1972.

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Trinity Church (Edisto Island, South Carolina)

Trinity Church is a church on Edisto Island, South Carolina.

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U.S. state

In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50.

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Unincorporated area

An unincorporated area is a region that is not governed by a local municipal corporation.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the United States government whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology.

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Wassamasaw Tribe of Varnertown Indians

The Wassamasaw Tribe of Varnertown Indians or Wassamasaw Tribe is a state-recognized tribe and 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization headquartered in Berkeley County, South Carolina.

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Wescott Road

Wescott Road, also known as Westcoat Road, is a historic road located at Edisto Island, Charleston County, South Carolina.

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William Seabrook House

The William Seabrook House, also known as the Seabrook is a plantation house built about 1810 on Edisto Island, South Carolina, United States, southwest of Charleston.

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Windsor Plantation

Windsor Plantation (also known as Little Edisto Plantation and Ashwood Plantation) is a historic house on Russell Creek on Edisto Island, South Carolina.

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Yale School of Public Health

The Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) was founded in 1915 by Charles-Edward Amory Winslow and is one of the oldest public health masters programs in the United States.

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ZIP Code

A ZIP Code (an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan) is a system of postal codes used by the United States Postal Service (USPS).

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2000 United States census

The 2000 United States census, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13.2 percent over the 248,709,873 people enumerated during the 1990 census.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edisto_Island

Also known as Edisto, Edisto Island (South Carolina), Edisto Island, SC, Edisto Island, South Carolina, Edisto, SC, Edisto, South Carolina.

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Edisto Island, the Glossary

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See also

Gullah country

Populated coastal places in South Carolina

South Carolina Sea Islands

References