David:
Yes, you are absolutely right, These photos were part of an effort to promote the Winyah Bay and The Santee Delta as "The Sportsman's Paradise" in 1916. As was previously discussed, the devastation to the economy when the rice industry failed was enormous for the region. My Grandfather was a rice planter and owned the Willowbank Plantation, on the (Black) Pee Dee. After the hurricane, they turned the rice mill into an oar factory and produced oars until they Ash lumber was depleted in the Black River area, around 1912. Hunting and fishing were a better part of the economy at the time. The Atlantic Coast Lumber Company on the Sampit River in Georgetown, was the only major employer in the region at the time, I believe.
I hope this discussion does not seem to be too far off topic for some, a little history is good for all of us now and then, don't you think?
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