To Make This Land Our Own: Community Identity and Social Adaptation in Purrysburg Township, South Carolina, 1732-1865

by Lawrence S. Rowland and Arlin C. Migliazzo

A case study in the social history of frontier town building set in the swamps of South Carolina

On the banks of the lower Savannah River, the military objectives of South Carolina officials, the ambitions of Swiss entrepreneur Jean Pierre Purry, and the dreams of Protestants from Switzerland, France, Germany, Italy, and England converged in a planned settlement named Purrysburg. This examination of the first South Carolina township...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570036829
• ISBN13: 9781570036828
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 435 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.2"