SC to rebuild 169-year-old slave cabin destroyed by Hurricane Helene

SC is preparing to rebuild 169-year-old slave cabin on the Redcliffe Plantation destroyed by Hurricane Helene.

By: Jessica Holdman

Outlets: South Carolina Daily Gazette

Published: September 8, 2026

Words: 787

Last Updated: 1 week, 2 days ago

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For more than a decade, the descendants of sharecroppers and people once enslaved on South Carolina’s Redcliffe Plantation gathered each year inside the former slave quarters on the property — now a state historic site — that their ancestors once called home.

Two remaining buildings out of four, arranged in a square, that served as the slave quarters at Redcliffe stood in the shade of a more than 200-year-old cherry bark oak.

But on Sept. …

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