Qualla: High Hills of Santee https://qualla.com/high-hills-of-santee en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/n/9/high-hills-of-santee-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: High Hills of Santee https://qualla.com/high-hills-of-santee High Hills of Santee: Introduction https://qualla.com/high-hills-of-santee/ Photo credit Pollinator at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. Malaria built these hills, in a sense. Every summer the Lowcountry around Charleston turned into a death trap of mosquitoes and fever, and wealthy planters fled inland to anywhere with breeze and elevation. The High Hills of Santee, a narrow upland ridge running twenty-five miles along the east side of the Wateree River, became their refuge. The South Carolina historian David Duncan Wallace called them part of the state's 'red hill region' and said they 'attain an almost mountainous appearance.' They are not mountains, only sandy ridges sometimes five miles wide, but in the flat coastal plain they were high enough to matter. Three National Historic Landmarks now stand among them, the surviving fabric of an antebellum world that ran on cotton and on the forced labor of enslaved Africans.

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/n/9/high-hills-of-santee-wp/dnn9-high-hills-of-santee-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full High Hills of Santee: The Gamecock and His County https://qualla.com/high-hills-of-santee/ Photo credit Pollinator at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. Thomas Sumter came to South Carolina from Virginia, married a local widow in 1767, and became a successful planter. The Revolution made him famous - a guerrilla commander so harassing to the British that they nicknamed him the Carolina Gamecock. Sumter District, later Sumter Coun...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/n/9/high-hills-of-santee-wp/dnn9-high-hills-of-santee-angelicas-brief-white-house.mp3 0:06 3 full High Hills of Santee: Stateburg, Where the Poinsettia Sleeps https://qualla.com/high-hills-of-santee/ Photo credit Pollinator at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. The village of Stateburg sits at the heart of the High Hills, listed on the National Register as a historic district that includes two of the region's three National Historic Landmarks. Borough House Plantation, an unusual rammed-earth structure built in the 1820s, was the birthp...

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