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Index Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia , 43. See also Philadelphia, Pa. Adams, Charles and Henry, 106 Adams, Henry (land miner), 80 Adams, Peter, 80 Adger, James, 31 Adger, Robert, 31, 117, 121, 129, 143, 156, 162 Adger family, 31, 32, 116, 117, 155 Adger Line, 32 Agassiz, Louis, 28, 40 Aiken, Joseph D., 139 Aiken & Company, 139 Alabama, 157 Alexander Brown and Sons, 32, 117 Allen, T. P., 25 Anderson, Henry, 80 Anderson, John, 80 Andrews, Sidney, 41 Ansted, David Thomas, 40 Ashepoo Mining and Manufacturing Guano Company (Ashepoo Mines), 60, 124m, 125, 165; plant and production, 132–35, 134f; vertical integration, 127, 133 Ashepoo River, 24 Ashley Ferry plantation, 45, 71 Ashley Hall plantation, 47 Ashley Mining and Phosphate Company, 48, 59, 60, 73, 80, 86–91, 183n44 Ashley River, 50, 57, 58, 132; marshes, 45. See also Phosphate deposits: Ashley River Atlantic Phosphate Company, 59–61, 124m, 125, 126, 139, 144, 157, 165; plant and production, 132–35 Atlantic Steam Packet Company, 32 Avery Normal Institute, 81 B. S. Rhett & Son, 55 Baker, Charles J., 48, 60, 86, 89 Baldwin & Company, 124 Baltimore, Md., 12, 17, 18, 32, 57, 60, 138; fertilizer merchants, 48, 56 Baring Brothers, 32 Bateman, Fred, 5 Beaufort, S.C., 3, 97, 121, 123; industrialization , 124, 150, 154. See also Southern industrialization Beaufort County, 93. See also individual companies, rivers, and towns Beaufort River, 111. See also Phosphate deposits: Beaufort area rivers Bee, William, 32, 138 Bee’s Ferry, 23, 24, 27, 39, 44, 56, 133 Berkeley County, 93 Blockade runners, 27, 30–33, 47 Boatmen’s Phosphate River Mining Company , 118, 119, 190n42 Bone phosphate of lime (BPL): historical comparison, 170n8; in marl, 22, 24, 28; in other materials, 13, 14, 25, 27; in phosphate rock, 23, 25, 38, 39, 57, 71; in SASP’s fertilizer, 194n35. See also Fertilizer science Boston, Mass., 60· 221 · Page numbers followed by f and m refer to figures and maps, respectively. 222 · index Bradley, William L., 60, 111, 114–16, 127, 135 Bradley family, 60 Bradley Fertilizer Company, 60, 111, 127 British business culture, 55 Brown, George S., 117 Brown, Shepley and Company, 32 Brown Brothers and Company, 32 Brown family, 32, 116 Bull River, 59, 111 Bulow Mine, 92f Business elite. See Entrepreneurs; Planter elite; individual names Butler, Rhett, 173n54 Cahill and Wise Phosphate Works, 94 Cain, Richard H., 103, 107, 109 Calhoun, John C., 64 Cameron, George S., 48, 59, 60, 103 Cameron, Simon, 48, 103 Canale, A., 113 Carlton, David, 7 Carolina Fertilizer Company, 60, 110, 125, 127, 128f, 140, 141; plant and production, 135 Census 1870, 7, 78–85, 170n12, 181n38 Census 1880, 7, 91–96, 146, 170n12 Central Mining Company, 112f Chamberlain, Daniel, 112, 188n29 Charles H. Drayton and Company, 94 Charleston, S.C., 123; antebellum, 1, 30, 31; blacks in, 82, 87, 95; business culture, 55, 64, 125, 139, 147, 156, 157, 162; Civil War, 41; economy, 9, 33, 37, 42, 48, 148 (see also Southern economy); eighteenth century, 1, 43; industrialization, 3, 9, 124m, 125, 148–56, 160, 162, 166 (see also Southern industrialization); investors, 38–42; postwar, 34; science in, 11, 19, 20, 27, 28; shipping, 76, 31, 32 Charleston Agricultural Lime Company, 28 Charleston County, 80, 84, 85. See also individual companies, rivers, and towns Charleston Courier (Daily Courier), 48, 52, 56, 101, 106–10, 127, 129; conservative agenda, 98, 100, 155; and industrialization , 135; and strikes, 144 Charleston Importing and Exporting Company, 32 Charleston Mercury, 52 Charleston Mining and Manufacturing Company, 72, 129, 175n28, 178n66; brand, 50, 51; capital, 50, 60, 61, 65, 155, 179n76; dividends, 63; dominance, 44, 46, 50, 57, 58, 61, 65; founding, 43–46, 50, 54; labor and housing, 73, 80; land acquisitions, 44–51, 56, 58, 62, 63, 67m, 175n35; management, 45, 51, 54, 61; marketing, 51, 55; plant, 49f, 50, 57, 58, 73, 176n45; press coverage, 52 Charleston Neck, 143, 146, 193n23; factories, 124, 130–33, 151, 160, 163; farms, 147, 148; industrial district, 135, 152, 154, 163–65 (see also Southern industrialization); mining, 59. See also Fertilizer industry; individual company names Chicora Importing and Exporting Company, 32 Chicora Mining and Manufacturing Company, 59, 60; founding, 43 Chisolm, Alexander R., 109, 188n29 Chisolm, Caspar A., 143 Chisolm’s Island, 60, 61, 79f, 116f, 117, 126, 148, 149f Christ Church Parish, 58 Civil War, 26–35 Clement plantation, 24 Clements, Dr., 56 Clifford, Loftus C., 62, 63 CMMC. See Charleston Mining and Manufacturing Company Coates and Company, 51 Coe, Charles...

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