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Parris Island Plantations Marker
Photographer: Parris Island Plantations Marker
Caption: Parris Island Plantations Marker
Additional Description: old plantations were divided into small tracts and given to newly freed slaves to farm. These family farms remained in operation until the last civilian residents left in 1938 to make room for the expanding Marine Corps Recruit Depot.
Submitted: August 6, 2009, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p72945
File Size: 0.056 Megabytes

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