Exploring Old House – Chicora Research Contribution 294
In 1996 Chicora Foundation conducted testing at the site of Old House, 38JA72, the plantation home of Daniel Heyward. Heyward, in addition to being the father of Thomas Heyward, Jr., one of South Carolina’s signers of the Declaration of Independence, was also an extraordinary planter. The historic record, while clouded by time and an absence of sources, seems to be intimately involved in not only planting rice, but also milling it. He is also associated with a cottage industry of woolen textile manufacturing. The historical record suggests that Daniel Heyward was far more interested in his plantation – and its daily operation – then in politics. In fact, it is easy enough to come away with a view of Heyward as a rather crusty farmer, who forsake the planter elite. But is this an accurate view?
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