1.   After World War II, his father moved the family to a South Carolina rice plantation called Combahee, where the Lanes employed a large staff of black families.

2.   But we eschew the neon for nature, exploring the rivers and saltwater marshes that once supported rice plantations along the fertile coast.

3.   Eventually, the land would become the site of Revolutionary War skirmishes and later a rice plantation.

4.   Once home to rice plantations and a major source of bricks and tiles, the region was given over to the Navy and Air Force.

5.   Originally a rice plantation, the monastery was built after a parcel was donated to the local Catholic diocese by the Henry Luce family.

6.   As owner of Quality Grain Company Ghana Ltd., Cotton obtained two multimillion-dollar loans from SouthTrust Bank to build the rice plantation.