I was born and grew up in a region where marshes are almost everywhere. When you look at a detailed

I was born and grew up in a region where marshes are almost everywhere. When you look at a detailed map of Horry County, the melting pot South Carolina along the Atlantic coast near the border of North Carolina will see that almost two-thirds of the land are swamps (swamps). My family for generations cultivated the soil dry between swamps.
But the swamps the melting pot and rivers, which flow around, we went often to fish, swim, the Baptist baptisms or just for fun. With the exception of areas close to the coast, our rivers and streams in Horry and surrounding counties surrounded by swamps. Marshes are part of river floodplains, where water is almost always at least a wet and muddy as always.
I never did not share the reluctance of most people to swamps; often people who have grown up around the marshes, they have a certain distance, which emanates from some names. In Virginia, one appointed by the Great Swamp Grim (Great Dismal Swamp). Here in South Carolina, near Charleston's the melting pot hole to hell (Hellhole Swamp). Even as a child I had a swamp like; but by the time I graduated from biology, I love them. It is one of the most productive ecosystems on earth as in species diversity, as well as the amount represented creatures that breed here and find food and safety.
In Horry (pronounced Oury) are two beautiful rivers with their own swamps: Little Pee Dee and Waccamaw. Faces south, where they met with the Great Pee Dee and Black River and then join forces to flow into Winyah Bay near the city of Georgetown and from there into the Atlantic. North and south of the estuary is the largest intact area of salt marshes on the Atlantic coast of North America. (Thankfully, most of the area include the University of South Carolina and is under the administration of its outstanding the melting pot marine science the melting pot department.)
u almost to New York City, built during the second world war to protect American shipping from German submarines. I marshes are incredibly rich ecosystems. 0řichází here reproduce many marine fish, crabs, shrimp and other creatures. Without salt marshes in the ocean would be much less life.
It was the big swamp around the Great Pee Dee River, which from the early colonial times until the thirties of the 20th century held the northeast corner of South Carolina isolation from the rest of the state. the melting pot My grandfather built the house in the twenties of the last century, when he married the melting pot my grandmother, but the electricity they introduced in 1938, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt supported the electrification of remote pieces of land.
And it was here and in other swamps the melting pot of South Carolina, where the mighty British army was completely helpless in the battles and skirmishes with the American rebels during the American War of Independence. Local militia, led by General Francis Marion (nicknamed Swamp Fox - Swampfox), the melting pot often skirmishes with the Redcoats started to then retreated into their familiar swamps. the melting pot Most of the British the melting pot troops, which is followed, lost without any hope of rescue or survival. My ancestor Pierre Michaud, a militia officer Carolingian Huguenot origin, as well as Marion, alongside Marion fought in the swamps.
Until the early 20th century, most commercial activity in Horry was mainly mining and processing of wood from the fertile silt for building and maintaining wooden boats. In addition masts are mainly produced turpentine and produced a shame. Its unusually tall pine were ideal material for masts. In colonial times, the selected pine marked the royal brand and were allowed to use only the masts for the royal fleet.
In the district of Williamsburg at Black River is the town of Kingstree as a reminder of the king of trees. Only when steamships replaced wooden sailing boats, people in Horry switched to agriculture, especially tobacco. In the past there were also rice plantations in freshwater wetlands on the coast. You tsunami wreaked havoc in the big earthquake of 1886, when seawater flooded rice fields and that is forever wiped for other agricultural uses. So here I grew up - we grew tobacco, corn, with
South Carolina has three distinct geological regions: the melting pot the coastal plains (the Coastal Plains), sandy hills prehistoric sand dunes, where the coast millions of years ago (the Sandhills), and Piedmont, where mountains begin. The place where we live with Hana, is uniquely unusual the melting pot piece of coastal lowlands, which extends far to the west in the sand hills. The soil is sandy, but it's just a short walk to swamps, bogs, including the largest, adjacent to the Congaree River.
Today the marsh as a protected status Congaree Swamp National Park. Located about 30 km from the capital city of South Carolina. It is the largest full growth floodplain forest in the alluvial plain in North America, where ever trees do not benefit commercially. The protected area has approximately 22,000 acres of America or 8,880 hectares. There are many trees that holds American the melting pot and world altitude record, including 60 m high cypress trees bare and red maple tree whose trunk is so wide that embrace it requires 12 people. It is one of the most beautiful places I know.
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