Northern Money, Southern Land: The Lowcountry Plantation Sketches of Chlotilde R. Martin

In the early 1930s Chlotilde R. Martin of Beaufort, South Carolina, wrote a series of articles for the Charleston News and Courier documenting the social and economic transformation of the lowcountry coast as an influx of wealthy northerners began buying scores of old local plantations. Her articles combined the name—dropping chatter of the lowcountry social register with reflections on the ...