With respect for the village where I live and have lived for 84 years, and having researched and read everything I can find on the subject, I thought this might
The earliest French attempts at settlement in Carolina followed soon after the repeal of the Edict of Nantes in 1562 when a group of Huguenots, led by Jean Ribault, was
The St. Stephen’s Parish Church was built in 1754. Three ships filled with eager adventurers from England and Barbados landed on the Carolina coast in 1670 at the junction of the two rivers that formed the Atlantic. They named these rivers after the Lord Proprietor who funded their venture, Lord Anthony Ashley Cooper. They named
Echaw in early records was spelled in various ways: Itshaw, Itchaw, Hitcha, most probably given name to the creek by the Sewee tribe of Native Americans. French Santee authors tell
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