Beaufort’s Natural Resources

• Geography of Beaufort (60+  islands, Barrier/Remnant Islands, Tidal change)
  
• Ecology of Beaufort ( natural food sources)
  

American Indians

• Prehistoric Chronology
  
• Technology (technological cradle)Architecture (shell middens/rings)
• Archaeological Reflections of American Indians
• The Yamassee people (villages, language, Settler influences)
• Altamaha (permanent settlement)
• Trade practices and Yamassee War (displacement of Natives)
• Modern S.C. tribes

Discovering the New World

• Spanish Exploration ( 1514 first exploration, Francisco Chicora)
• Lucas Vasquez de Ayllon, Jean Ribault, William Hilton
• Charlesfort; Santa Elena (Fort San Filipe, Fort San Marcos); Stuart Town

Founding of Beaufort

• Carolina Colony (Lord’s Proprietors, King Charles II)
• Founding of Beaufort Town (Henry Woodward, Henry Summerset 2^nd Duke of Beaufort, Tuscarora Jack Barnwell)
• Deerskin and Slave Trades (routes/roads)
• Early Plantation Life (rice, indigo, cattle, Eliza Lucas Pickney)

American Revolution

• Thomas Heyward Jr.
• Declaration of Independence (grievance #4)
• Loyalists vs. Patriots
• Battle of Beaufort
• Economic impact of the war
• National Militia Act and History of the Arsenal (BVA)

Antebellum Beaufort

• Town Life (architecture, opulent lifestyle)
• Beaufort College
• Plantation Life (task system, slave life)
• Expansion of Slave Trade
• Gullah/Geechee Culture
• Sea Island Cotton

Civil War in Beaufort

• Nullification Crisis
• Secession (Robert Barnwell Rhett)
• Battle of Port Royal (General PT Beauregard, Fort Walker, Fort Beauregard, General Thomas Sherman, Commodore Samuel Dupont, the Great skadattle, Union’s Blockade Stratagy)
• Occupation
• Hospitals
• Development of National Cemetery
• Contrabands
• 1^st S.C. Volunteer Infantry  (General Rufus Saxton, Port Royal Experiment)
• Robert Smalls (The Planter, political career, public school system)
• Susie King Taylor, Harriet Tubman, General PT Beauregard

 Postbellum Beaufort

• Mitchelville/Freedman’s Bureau/ Missionary Societies
• Port Royal Experiment
• Politics of Reconstruction (Robert Smalls, sharecropping)
• Mather School
• Penn School
• Truck Farming
• Phosphate Mining
• Seafood Industry (Blue Crab, Oyster canning)
• Hurricanes (Clara Barton, Red Cross)

Twentieth Century Beaufort

• Military comes to Beaufort (Parris Island, NHB, MCAS)
• Tenant Farming and The Depression
•  Jim Crow/Civil Rights (Martin Luther King)
• Re-envisioning Beaufort (Henry Chambers, Waterfront park, Tourism
• Sheriff McTeer (root medicine/hoodoo, History of BHM)
• Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor
• Film Industry
• Water Festival