Nature’s Return: An Environmental History of Congaree National Park PDF
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NATURE’S RETURN p An Environmental History of Congaree National Park NATURE’S RE TURN p Mark Kinzer THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA PRESS An Environmental History of Congaree National Park NATURE’S RE TURN p Mark Kinzer THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA PRESS © 2017 University of South Carolina Published by the University of South Carolina Press Columbia, South Carolina 29208 www.sc.edu/uscpress 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data can be found at http://catalog.loc.gov/ isbn: 978-1-61117-766-4 (hardcover) isbn: 978-1-61117-767-1 (ebook) Front cover photo: water tupelo (Nyssa aquatica) with spring sedge growth, Congaree National Park, © Jeff Lepare / Alamy stock photo To Nancy, Emily, and Ben and to the memory of my father, James R. Kinzer, who indulged my love of nature from an early age. Nature is always ready to retake what we abandon and pursue tranquilly her ordi- nary course, serene and beautiful and timeless, which, when observed with loving understanding, has the power to confer some of that beauty and some of that serenity on the receptive heart. Archibald Rutledge, Santee Paradise, 1956 Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Chronology xiii Introduction 1 1 Managing the Presettlement Landscape 7 2 First Settlement, Land Clearing, and the Open Range 28 3 The Rise of Plantation Agriculture 47 4 Early Park Plantations 69 5 Reclaiming the Floodplain 87 6 The Location and Extent of Historic Clearing 101 7 Industrial Logging: First Inroads, 1870–1918 125 8 Logging after 1920 161 Conclusion: The Impact of Human Disturbance 182 Appendix A: Selected Floodplain Cultural Features 195 Appendix B: Biographical Sketches 205 Notes 219 Bibliography 267 Index 291 p List of Illustrations Figures 1 Floodplain Microtopography and Associated Forest Cover Types 12 2 Joel Adams Sr. 33 3 Major General Charles Cotesworth Pinckney 43 4 Edward Rutledge 43 5 Brigadier General Isaac Huger 55 6 Colonel William Thomson 56 7 Detail from Marmaduke Coate’s Survey of Richland District, 1820 65 8 Plat Showing Spigener’s Fields, 1839 89 9 Relation of Soil Types to Topography at Congaree National Park 111 10 A Large Sweet Gum, Richland County, ca. 1904 120 11 Dense Canebrake, South Carolina, ca. 1904 121 12 Tupelo Gum Slough, Congaree River, ca. 1904 121 13 A Cypress Slough in the Dry Season, ca. 1904 122 14 A Large Cottonwood, Richland County, ca. 1904 122 15 Second-Growth Sweet Gum, Ash, Cottonwood, and Sycamore, on Hardwood Bottomland, ca. 1904 123 16 Francis Beidler 133 17 Hardwood Bottomland Recently Logged, Richland County, ca. 1904 152 18 Peeled Sweet Gum Logs Seasoning in the Woods, ca. 1904 154 Maps 1 Congaree National Park, Showing the Beidler Tract xiv 2 Congaree National Park, Parcel and Tract Numbers xv 3 Congaree National Park, Boardwalk and Trail System xvi 4 Partial Route of the Hernando de Soto Expedition (1540) 19 5 Route of the Juan Pardo Expeditions (1566–67, 1567–68) 21
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