South+Carolina

Postcards from South Carolina:

This card led to one of our coolest geography lessons so far. It is from Daufuskie Island, which we had never learned about before! Daufuskie has a full-time population of around 250. There are two resorts, a private residential community, and a large undeveloped tract of lands identified as residential property. The postcard says: "Daufuskie Island was the home to many frees slaves following the Civil War. These people were called the Gullah people."
 * Daufuskie Island** is a residential "sea island" between [|Savannah, Georgia] and [|Hilton Head Island, South Carolina] about 2.75 miles offshore. The total island surface is just 8 square miles.



12/6/11 As it turns out, South Carolina is a place that many of the students in my class would like to visit, because we have learned such interesting things on the postcards from S.C.! This latest postcard shows The Market in Charleston, South Carolina. After some reading, we learned that this is a building where slaves were once sold before the Civil War. The building stood through the Civil War, although there were fierce bombardments in the city.