South Carolina's Agricultural History

PRE-HISTORY
	35,000 BC: Axes are used
		30,000 BC: Bows and Arrows are used
			12,000 BC: Deliberate use of fire
				8,000 BC: Domestication of animals
					8,000 BC: Domestication of grain
						7,000 BC: Farming
							2,000 BC: Meat dried in the Sun

1500 - 1790
	1525 -- First arrival
		1670 -- Settlement
			1685 -- Rice Culture
				1708 -- Population growth
					1730-39 -- About 20,000 enslaved Africans are brought to the state
						1739 -- The Stono Rebellion
							1740 -- Slave Codes

1790 - 1816
	1790 -- The Brown Fellowship Society is formed
		1792 -- Restrictions are placed on free African-Americans
			1792: Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin
				1793 -- Cotton gin makes the growing of cotton profitable in noncoastal areas
					1803 -- The Minors Moralist Society founded
						1810 -- Tom Molyneux boxes against the world heavyweight champion in England
							1816 -- Camden Revolt

1817 - 1839
	1817 -- Morris Brown, wealthy free African-American, starts an AME church in Charleston
		1820-1860 -- Edgefield Pottery
			1822 -- Denmark Vesey Rebellion
				1829 -- The Georgetown Conspiracy
					1834: Cyrus McCormick invented the reaper
						1837: John Deere made a plow saw est. a factory in Moline, Ill.
							1839 -- The Christian Benevolent Society is formed by free African-Americans to provide for the poor.

	1839: Mr. D.S. Rockwell invented the corn planter
		1847: W.F. Ketchum invented the first successful mower.
			1850 -- Fugitive Slave Law
				1851: first grain elevator by Brown Brothers
					1854: Brown Brothers est. Empire Drill Co. @ Shortsville, New York
						1856: George Easterly made first two-horse cultivator
							1860: Mr P.K. Dederick invented the hay press

1861 - 1870
	1861 -- Union forces take control of the Sea Islands
		1862 (May 12) -- Robert Smalls sails The Planter through Confederate lines and delivers it and its cargo to Union forces off the South Carolina coast.
			1862 -- Two Northern Quakers create the Penn School on St. Helens Island
				1869 --Joseph Rainey becomes the first African-American in South Carolina to become an U.S. Representative in Congress
					1869 -- The South Carolina Land Commission is created by the new legislature
						1870 -- Public Education
							1870 -- The self-sufficient farming community of Promised Land is formed on land in Greenwood County bought from the S.C. Land Commission

1872 - 1904
	1839: Mr. D.S. Rockwell invented the corn planter
		1847: W.F. Ketchum invented the first successful mower.
			1850 -- Fugitive Slave Law
				1851: first grain elevator by Brown Brothers
					1854: Brown Brothers est. Empire Drill Co. @ Shortsville, New York
						1856: George Easterly made first two-horse cultivator
							1860: Mr P.K. Dederick invented the hay press