. The South Carolina historical and genealogical magazine . Url old. iniAi (^ Gat: [uica^ f>Ot/n. Reduced to \ of oriKinal sizt. The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine VOL. XVI JANUARY, 1915 No. 1 OLD CHARLES TOWN AND ITS VICINITY, ACCABEEAND WAPPOO WHERE INDIGO WAS FIRST CULTI-VATED, WITH SOME ADJOINING PLACES IN OLDST. ANDREWS PARISH. By Henry A. M. Smith. The original settlement by the English in South Carolina wasat a point on the Southwest side of the Ashley river, at the placenow known as Old Town plantation. At that place a creekmakes in from the river running first
. The South Carolina historical and genealogical magazine . Url old. iniAi (^ Gat: [uica^ f>Ot/n. Reduced to \ of oriKinal sizt. The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine VOL. XVI JANUARY, 1915 No. 1 OLD CHARLES TOWN AND ITS VICINITY, ACCABEEAND WAPPOO WHERE INDIGO WAS FIRST CULTI-VATED, WITH SOME ADJOINING PLACES IN OLDST. ANDREWS PARISH. By Henry A. M. Smith. The original settlement by the English in South Carolina wasat a point on the Southwest side of the Ashley river, at the placenow known as Old Town plantation. At that place a creekmakes in from the river running first generally to the Southwest,and then turning Northwest and forming a neck of land boundedNortheast by the marshes of Ashley river Southeast, South, andSouthwest by this creek and its marshes, and Northwest by anarrow extent of high land capable then of easy defence. Theriver, as far at least as that point, was called by the native In-dians by a name spelled by the settlers variously as Keyawah,Kyawaw, Kayawah, Chyawhaw, Kiwaha, Kywaha, Keywaha,and Kiawah^ which last, viz., Kiawah, became later the acceptedform; pronounced Kee-
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