Flat Rock of the Old Time: Letters from the Mountains to the Lowcountry, 1837-1939

A documentary history of a settlement adopted by Lowcountry gentry escaping the heat of weather and war

The intoxicating "champagne air" of Flat Rock, North Carolina, captivated residents of lowcountry South Carolina

in the nineteenth century because it offered them respite from the sickly, semitropical coastal climate. In Flat Rock of the Old Time, editor Robert B. Cuthbert has mined the collections of the South Carolina Historical Society to publish a documentary history of the place and i...