First of two volume set of a photograph albums documenting historic sites of South Carolina's lowcountry, sponsored by John R. Todd, Hugh S. Robertson, and Dr. Ja[mes]s M. Todd, and inscribed to Dr. W[illia]m H. Johnson of Charleston, S.C. Includes information re Ft. Hill, Millford, Otranto, Dean Hall, Wappaoolah, Medway, Gippy, Bluford, Mt. Pleasant, Limerick, Middleburg, Snee Farm, Oakland, and other plantations in the Counties of Berkeley, Charleston, Sumter, and elsewhere, with photographs by W.F. Blanchard. Includes exterior and interior views, and details of facades, mantles, paneling, and other woodwork; also including images of the original simple frame house located at Boone Hall plantation which was demolished ca. 1930s prior to construction of the present brick structure; instead of a central hall, the original Boone Hall structure had two front doors opening into separate rooms, a local preference found in a number of houses in Berkeley County and elsewhere in the lowcountry; and image of the Poe Oak, a tree at Youghal, a plantation near Mt. Pleasant. Tatum identies this site as "the tree refered to in Edgar Allen Poe's 'Gold Bug'... located on a very extensive Indian mound...."
