Sugar Cane

Linked to Lower Coastal Plain and Coastal Islands

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Workers on St. Simons Island grind sugar cane, one of the crops raised on Georgia's barrier islands in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A number of other crops were raised on the island during this time as well, including indigo, rice, and Sea Island cotton.

Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, #
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