Remaking Wormsloe Plantation: The Environmental History of a Lowcountry Landscape

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{245} index Abbot, John, 57, 59 agricultural reform movement, 77–78, 90–92 agroecology, 7 Alaska Lands Act, 172 Alderney cattle, 124 Altamaha River, 15 American Cyanamide, 173 Anne (ship), 14 archeology, 165 Asheville, North Carolina, 124, 134, 136 Audubon Society, 148, 163 Augusta, Georgia, 98, 148 automobiles, 143–45 avenue, live oak, 1, 116–17, 134, 181, 187–88; damage to, during logging, 178–79 Barrow, Craig, 132, 154–55, 160, 161; death, 162; historical activities, 161 Barrow, Craig, Jr., 166 Barrow, Elfrida De Renne, 132, 133; attitudes toward Wormsloe, 136; control of Wormsloe, 154–55; creates nonprofit foundation, 164; death, 166; historical activities, 160–61; legal struggles, 165; remodeling of Wormsloe, 160 Barrow, Laura, 166 Bartram, John, 42–43, 117 Bartram, William, 60, 147 basf, 174 Bates, Erland, 150 Beach, Jesse, 109, 119, 152; as Wormsloe manager, 140–41 Beaulieu Plantation, 29, 146 Bell’s Point, 99 Bethesda orphanage, 27, 42, 59 bicentennial, United States, 157–59, 165, 168 Bignault,T., 147 Bilali (slave), 63 Biltmore Estate, 134–35 birds, 57–58, 137–39 Blakelee, Will, 187–88 boll weevil, 80 Bolzius, John Martin, 34 Bonaventure cemetery, 116–17, 142 Bradley (colonist), 40 Bradley, Aaron, 102 Bragg, William Harris, 11–12 Branigar Corporation, 167 Brickell, Herschel, 143 Bruce, James, 92 Bulloch, James, 49, 55 Burke, Emily, 85 Burnside (colonist), 39 Butler, Brutus, 108, 114–15 Byrd, William, 31 Cadogau, J. J., 115 camellias, 115, 142 Campbell, Archibald, 48 Campbell, Peter, 109 Carson, Rachel, Silent Spring, 170–71 Carter, Jimmy, 166, 167–68, 172–73, 177 Castillo de San Marcos, 168 Chatham County, Georgia: agriculture, 92–93, 126–28; fence law, 122; population, 35, 58–59; slavery in, 35; sues Wormsloe Foundation, 165 Chatham Hunt Club, 136 Chinese tallow tree, 43 {246} index agricultural activities, 124–26; death, 141; historical collection, 133; horticulture, 116–17; hunting, 136; opinion of open range, 122; remodeling of Wormsloe, 133–36, 160; rental of Wormsloe, 133; suits against poachers, 119; taxidermy collection, 137–39; travels, 133; wealth, 121 De Renne, Wymberley Wormsloe, 116, 133, 136; inherits Wormsloe, 141–42; investments, 142, 154; loss of Wormsloe, 154–55 De Renne family, historical collections of, 11 De Soto, Hernando, 36 Devon cattle, 124 Diamond Causeway, 185, 187 disease, 178; belief in the role of climate, 9, 30, 31–32; influence on slave housing, 87; malaria, 29–30, 32–33; New World illnesses, 29; role in establishing racial slavery, 32–34; yellow fever, 29, 30–31, 32, 33 Dixie Highway, 144–45 Drayton, Bristol, 101, 103 Drury, William H., 171–72 Dupon subdivision, 137 Earle, John, 60 ecology, 170–72 Edison,Thomas, 144 emancipation, 95 enclosure, English, 27, 37 environmental history, 6, 7–8, 187, 188 environmental movement, 157, 172–74 Equiano, Olaudah, 30 Essay on Calcareous Manures, An (Ruffin), 92 Farmers’ Register, 78 Farrand, Beatrix, 149 fences, 36, 39–40, 112–13, 121–22. See also open range fertilizer, 80. See also guano; manure; oyster shells Civil War, 4; battlefield parks, 185; capture of Savannah by Union forces, 101; combat near Wormsloe, 95, 101; earthworks on Wormsloe, 99; effects on Wormsloe agriculture, 98–99, 101 Claghorn, Joseph, 109 Clements, Frederic, 171 climate: effects on the body, 31–32, 33–34; effects on horticulture, 9, 42 Coastal Marshlands Protection Act, 171 Coastal Zone Management Act, 171 Coffin, Howard, 145 Cook, J. C., 152 cookbooks, 73–75 cotton gin, 48, 82 cotton, sea island, 4, 43, 54–55, 59–63; cultivation, 62–63, 64–65; manufacturing, 62; origins, 59–61; post–Civil War demise, 106–7; price fluctuations, 61, 71, 92, 107; variations on Wormsloe, 72, 80–81, 83–84, 98. See also task system cotton, short staple, 59, 93, 128 Coulter, E. Merton, 11–12, 164 Creeks, 14, 23. See also Tomochichi; Yamacraw Crosby, Alfred, 19 Cullen, Virginia, 152 Cumberland Island, 145, 146 dairying: cattle breeds, 124–25; products, 126, 139; Savannah, 123–24; technology, 125–26, 139; Wormsloe, 123, 124–26, 139, 153–54. See also Foremost Dairy Products DeLyon, Abraham, 42 De Renne, Audrey, 133, 136, 154 De Renne, Augusta, 142; historical activities, 149–50; horticultural activities, 142, 148–49 De Renne, Elfrida. See Barrow, Elfrida De Renne De Renne, George W. See Jones, George Wymberley De Renne, Wymberley Jones, 99–100; index {247} See also gardens, truck; horticulture; Wormsloe Gardens gardens, truck, 126–28 Georgia Department of Forestry, 161 Georgia Department of Natural...