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Photographer: Sandra Hughes
Taken: September 28, 2015
Caption: River Tides for Rice
Additional Description: Savannah River rice planters used tidal power to supply water to their rice fields. Planters operated floodgates, called "trunks" to irrigate rice fields during high river tides and drain them when tides fell.
Submitted: October 30, 2015, by Sandra Hughes Tidwell of Killen, Alabama, USA.
Database Locator Identification Number: p335962
File Size: 1.122 Megabytes

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