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Fish Hall Plantation, part of Interpretive Marker at Fort Walker site, Port Royal Plantation
Photographer: Mike Stroud
Taken: 2009
Caption: Fish Hall Plantation, part of Interpretive Marker at Fort Walker site, Port Royal Plantation
Additional Description: The Charleston and Savannah Railroad, today part of the Seaboard Coast Line System, [ CSX] was built in 1853 by General Thomas Fenwick Drayton. General Drayton in 1838 married Emma Pope, heiress of Fish Hall Plantation, located approximately one mile across the marsh northwest of this point. The C&S Railroad remained an important Confederate rail link until early 1865 despite many Union attempts to sever it.
Submitted: February 10, 2009, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p52613
File Size: 0.205 Megabytes

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