Rice to Ruin
The saga of the precipitous rise and ultimate fall of the Jonathan Lucas family''s rice-mill dynasty
In the 1780s Jonathan Lucas, on a journey from his native England, shipwrecked near the Santee Delta of South Carolina, about forty miles north of Charleston. Lucas, the son of English mill owners and builders, found himself, fortuitously, near vast acres of swamp and marshland devoted to rice culti...
The saga of the precipitous rise and ultimate fall of the Jonathan Lucas family''s rice-mill dynasty
In the 1780s Jonathan Lucas, on a journey from his native England, shipwrecked near the Santee Delta of South Carolina, about forty miles north of Charleston. Lucas, the son of English mill owners and builders, found himself, fortuitously, near vast acres of swamp and marshland devoted to rice culti...
