Fields Point is a peninsula in Colleton County, South Carolina,[1][2][3] that has been part of plantation lands and was fortified during the American Civil War. It includes an area of high ground along a bend in the Combahee River and is named for[2][4] the Fields family that owned a plantation on the property.[5] The area saw action during the American Civil War including during the raid on Combahee Ferry that involved Harriet Tubman.[2][6] The area now includes a county owned boat landing. Surrounding land is owned by the Cheeha-Combahee Plantation.[2]
The area was largely abandoned for a time.[7]
The Dai-Ching reportedly grounded at Fields Point during the night after it was abandoned and set alight.[8]
References
edit- ^ "Fields Point". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved September 21, 2019.
- ^ a b c d "Two Historic Events at Field's Point". October 3, 2012.
- ^ "Fields Point (in Colleton County, SC)".
- ^ "Names in South Carolina". Department of English, University of South Carolina. August 19, 1980 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Field's Point Plantation – Colleton County, South Carolina SC". south-carolina-plantations.com.
- ^ Grigg, Jeff W. (October 28, 2014). The Combahee River Raid: Harriet Tubman & Lowcountry Liberation. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 9781625850041 – via Google Books.
- ^ Leiding, Harriette Kershaw (August 19, 1921). Historic Houses of South Carolina. J.B. Lippincott. ISBN 9780722245705 – via Google Books.
- ^ Hollis, Margaret Belser; Stokes, Allen H. (December 7, 2012). Twilight on the South Carolina Rice Fields: Letters of the Heyward Family, 1862–1871. Univ of South Carolina Press. ISBN 9781611172300 – via Google Books.
32°34′08″N 80°33′25″W / 32.56880°N 80.55705°W
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