Coastline: Santa Elena History Center 2017
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This month we look at the progress of the Santa Elena History Center.
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Megan Meyer, Executive Director for the Santa Elena History Center speaks with OUAT.
Megan Meyer speaks with Ryan Heathcock and Nancy Kormendi about the newest Museum open on Bay Street in the heart of downtown Beaufort, SC. This museum highlights the untold and little known history of the arrival and settlement of Europeans in North America before Jamestown.
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Santa Elena Foundation 2-Minute Interpretive Center Film
This brief film establishes awareness for the Santa Elena Foundation's new Interpretive Center which will be located at the Beaufort County Courhouse in Historic Downtown Beaufort. The film covers a simple overview for the history of Lost Century and Santa Elena, a major colony established by Spain in the 16th Century on Parris Island, South Carolina.
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Santa Elena
So much history is lost in the shuffle of life. Take the first Spanish capital in North America, no not St. Augustine, but Santa Elena. Check it out.
History center unveils model of Fort San Marcos
The Santa Elena History Center unveils a scale model of Fort San Marcos, the 1577 fort built by Spanish colonists on what is now Parris Island, S.C.
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Fishing On Parris Island South Carolina
The crew and i head out to Parris Island to do some salt water fishing!
What is Parris Island you ask?
Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island (often abbreviated as MCRD PI) is an 8,095 acres (32.76 km2) military installation located within Port Royal, South Carolina, approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Beaufort, the community that is typically associated with the installation. MCRD Parris Island is used for the training of enlisted Marines. Male recruits living east of the Mississippi River and female recruits from all over the United States report here to receive their initial training. Male recruits living west of the Mississippi River receive their training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, California, but may train at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island by special request.
A French Huguenot expedition, led by Jean Ribault in 1562, was the first European group to attempt to colonize Parris Island. Earlier Spanish expeditions had sighted the area, and named it Punta de Santa Elena, which now remains one of the oldest continuously used European place names in the United States. The French expedition built an outpost named Charlesfort, and Ribault left a small garrison as he returned to France for colonists and supplies. After a long absence, due to Ribault's delay from wars in Europe, Charlesfort was abandoned after the garrison mutinied, built a ship on the island, and sailed back to France in April 1563. In 1566 the Spanish, led by Pedro Menéndez de Avilés founded a settlement named Santa Elena which became the capital of La Florida for the next decade. Spain finally abandoned Santa Elena in 1587. England took control of the region by the 17th century, and Parris Island became home to British plantations after being purchased by Colonel Alexander Parris, treasurer of the South Carolina colony, in 1715. From the 1720s to the Civil War, the island was divided into a number of plantations, initially growing indigo, then later cotton. During and after the Civil War, the island became home to freed slaves, and was a site of freedmen schools taught by abolitionists such as Frances Gage and Clara Barton.
Union forces captured Port Royal Sound in 1861, and Parris Island became a coaling station for the Navy. This function was taken up again after the war, thanks in large part to the former slave turned Congressman Robert Smalls, who fought for the creation of a new federal military installation on the island.
Marines were first stationed on Parris Island in 1891, in the form of a small security detachment headed by First Sergeant Richard Donovan. His unit was attached to the Naval Station, Port Royal, the forerunner of Parris Island. Donovan's unit was highly commended for preserving life and property during hurricanes and tidal waves that swept over the island in 1891 and 1893.
Military buildings and homes constructed between 1891 and World War I form the nucleus of the Parris Island Historic District. At the district center are the commanding general's home, a 19th-century wooden dry dock and a start of the 20th century gazebo—all of which are on the National Register of Historic Places.[3]
On November 1, 1915, Parris Island was officially designated a Marine Corps Recruit Depot and training was continued from then on.
Shipwrecks of America's Lost Century
The following is a video recording of the Second Santa Elena Conference sponsored by the Santa Elena Foundation, the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of South Carolina, Beaufort. This one-day public conference on 5 April 2019 gathered together a group of eminent maritime historians and nautical archaeologists to share their understanding of seafaring ventures and shipwrecks from the sixteenth century-America’s Lost Century. In addition, the program included a special recognition of the contributions by Dr. Eugene Lyon in illuminating the early maritime and colonial efforts at Santa Elena and in Spanish La Florida.
European expansion into the newly discovered Western Hemisphere during the sixteenth century resulted in numerous shipwrecks–victims of accidents, carelessness, storms, warfare, scuttling, and myriad other hazards and perils. In fact, scarcely two months after discovering and exploring the newly found island in the New World, Columbus lost his largest ship, the nao Santa Maria, on the north coast of the island of Hispaniola. The Americas had claimed their first European shipwreck with many more to follow.
This symposium served to provide an understanding of the various motives, efforts, and results of these early explorers, hunters, and colonizers through use of the historical and archaeological record. Topics under discussion included an overview of the early ships and crews associated with these seafaring voyages westward, colonial ventures, early whaling, transport of goods and products back to Europe, and competing claims between nations to control this new land, most notably at Santa Elena and along the southeastern U.S. coastline of La Florida. The historians and underwater archaeologists on the program have devoted much of their careers to researching this oft forgotten but important phase in the evolution to our modern world.
Presenters include Carla Rahn Phillips, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities; Don Keith, Ships of Discovery; Paul Hoffman, Louisiana State University; Barto Arnold, Institute of Nautical Archaeology; Roger Smith, Florida Division of Historical Resources; John Bratten, University of West Florida; Corey Malcom, Mel Fisher Maritime Museum; Chuck Meide, St. Augustine Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program; Brad Loewen, Université de Montréal; and James Spirek, South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology.
Program:
Welcome and Recognition of Dr. Eugene Lyon, Honorary Symposium Chair.
Dr. Larry Rowland, USC-Beaufort, retired, and Santa Elena Foundation, board member
7:00
Opening Remarks by Symposium Organizer and Moderator.
Mr. James D. Spirek
16:55
Iberian Seafaring and Naval Operations during the Sixteenth Century.
Professor Carla Rahn Phillips (by video)
44:05
Early 16th century shipwrecks in the New World.
Dr. Don Keith
1:15:55
Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón’s discovery of Southeastern North America, 1521-26.
Dr. Paul E. Hoffman
1:46:05
1554 Flota Wreck, Padre Island, Texas.
Mr. Barto Arnold
2:21:20
The Old Spaniard: Exploration and Analysis of the first shipwreck to be discovered from the 1559 expedition to colonize Florida.
Dr. Roger C. Smith
2:59:50
Ballast and Timbers Beneath the Sand: Exploration and Analysis of the Second and Third Shipwrecks to be Discovered from the 1559 Expedition to Colonize Florida.
Dr. John R. Bratten
3:29:55
On the Eve of La Florida: The Wreck of Santa Clara and the Tierra Firme fleet of 1563-1564.
Dr. Corey Malcom
4:02:15
Jean Ribault’s Lost French Fleet of 1565: The Search for and Discovery of the Earliest French Shipwrecks in Florida
Mr. Chuck Meide
4:34:05
The Wreck of the San Juan, a Basque Whaler at Red Bay, Labrador (1565)
Dr. Brad Loewen
5:09:00
“He who has weapons in his fist, and who is the strongest, carries the day”—French Corsairing and the Final Voyage of Le Prince.
Mr. James D. Spirek
5:43:50
Concluding Remarks
Dr. Eugene Lyon and James Spirek
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Spanish Fort Discovered On South Carolina Coast
The location of a lost Spanish fort has been found by archaeologists on the South Carolina coast. The site of the fort is where the first capital of Spanish Florida was erected. San Marcos was one of five forts built during the Santa Elena settlement which lasted for 21 years. The fort was found near Hilton Head on Parris Island. For the past two years university archaeologists have been searching for the fort built in 1577. There were no documents that provided a map of Santa Helena. Instead, it was detected using a high tech ground penetrating radar.
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Marine recruits go through the rigors of boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina.
Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island (often abbreviated as MCRD PI) is an 8,095 acres (32.76 km2) military installation located within Port Royal, South Carolina, approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Beaufort, the community that is typically associated with the installation. MCRD Parris Island is used for the training of enlisted Marines. Male recruits living east of the Mississippi River and female recruits from all over the United States report here to receive their initial training. Male recruits living west of the Mississippi River receive their training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, California, but may train at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island by special request.
Marines were first stationed on Parris Island in 1891, in the form of a small security detachment headed by First Sergeant Richard Donovan. His unit was attached to the Naval Station, Port Royal, the forerunner of Parris Island. Donovan's unit was highly commended for preserving life and property during hurricanes and tidal waves that swept over the island in 1891 and 1893.
Military buildings and homes constructed between 1891 and World War I form the nucleus of the Parris Island Historic District. At the district center are the commanding general's home, a 19th-century wooden dry dock and a start of the 20th century gazebo—all of which are on the National Register of Historic Places.
On November 1, 1915, Parris Island was officially designated a Marine Corps Recruit Depot and training was continued from then on.
Prior to 1929, a ferry provided all transportation to and from the island from Port Royal docks to the Recruit Depot docks. In that year the causeway and a bridge over Archer's Creek were completed, thus ending the water transportation era. The causeway was dedicated as the General E. A. Pollock Memorial Causeway in April 1984. During the fateful December 1941, 5,272 recruits arrived there with 9,206 arriving the following month, making it necessary to add the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th Recruit Training Battalions. As the war influx continued, five battalions were sent to New River, North Carolina, to train, and the Depot expanded to 13 battalions. From 1941 through 1945, the Marines trained 204,509 recruits here and at the time of the Japanese surrender, the Depot contained more than 20,000 recruits.
On February 15, 1949, the Marines activated a separate command for the sole purpose of training female recruits. Later, this command was designated the 4th Recruit Training Battalion and it now serves as the only battalion in the Corps for training female recruits, and is the only all-female unit in the Department of Defense.
The Korean War began in 1950 when 2,350 recruits were in training. From then until the 1st Marine Division withdrew from Korea, Parris Island drill instructors trained more than 138,000 recruits. During March 1952, the training load peaked at 24,424 recruits. The recruit tide again flooded during the years of the Vietnam War, reaching a peak training load of 10,979 during March 1966.
On the night of April 8, 1956, the Ribbon Creek incident resulted in the drowning of six recruits, and led to widespread changes in recruit training policies. Supervision of drill instructors was expanded, such as the introduction of the Series Commander.
On October 11, 2002, the Town of Port Royal annexed the entire island, although most visitors still associate the installation with Beaufort, a larger community five miles to the north.
On June 17, 2011, Brigadier General Lori Reynolds became the first female commander of the base.
At the next change of command on June 20, 2014, Brigadier General Terry Williams became the first African-American commander of the base.
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Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island is an 8,095 acres military installation located within Port Royal, South Carolina, approximately 5 miles south of Beaufort, the community that is typically associated with the installation. MCRD Parris Island is used for the training of enlisted Marines. Male recruits living east of the Mississippi River and female recruits from all over the United States report here to receive their initial training. Male recruits living west of the Mississippi River receive their training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, California, but may train at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island by special request.
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What is TABBY CONCRETE? What does TABBY NETWORK mean? TABBY NETWORK meaning & explanation
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What is TABBY CONCRETE? What does TABBY NETWORK mean? TABBY NETWORK meaning - TABBY CONCRETE definition - TABBY CONCRETE explanation.
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Tabby is a type of concrete made by burning oyster shells to create lime, then mixing it with water, sand, ash and broken oyster shells. Tabby was used by early Spanish settlers in present-day North Carolina and Florida, then by English colonists primarily in coastal South Carolina and Georgia.
Revivals in the use of tabby spread northward and continued into the early 19th century. Tabby was normally protected with a coating of plaster or stucco.
Tabby's origin is uncertain. There is evidence that North African Moors brought a predecessor form of tabby to Spain when they invaded that kingdom: a form of tabby is used in Morocco today and some tabby structures survive in Spain, though in both instances the aggregate is granite, not oyster shells.
It is likely that 16th-century Spanish explorers first brought tabby (which appears as tabee, tapis, tappy and tapia in early documents) to the coast of Florida in the sixteenth century. Tapia is Spanish for mud wall and Arabic tabbi means a mixture of mortar and lime or African tabi. In fact, the mortar used to chink the earliest cabins in this area was a mixture of mud and Spanish moss.
Some researchers believe that English colonists developed their own process independently of the Spanish.
James Oglethorpe is credited with introducing Oglethorpe tabby into Georgia after seeing Spanish forts in Florida and encouraging its use, using it himself for his house near Fort Frederica. Later Thomas Spalding, who had grown up in Oglethorpe's house, led a tabby revival in the second quarter of the 19th century sometimes referred to as Spalding tabby. Another revival occurred with the development of Jekyll Island in the 1880s.
Limestone to make building lime was not available to early settlers so lime was imported or made from oyster shells. Shell middens along the coast proved to be a supply of shells to make tabby which diffused from two primary centers or hearths: one at Saint Augustine, Florida, and the other at Beaufort, South Carolina.
The earliest known use of tabby was near Beaufort, South Carolina area, formerly known as Santa Elena which was the capital of Spanish Florida from 1566 to 1587.
The British tradition began later (some time close to, but earlier than, 1700, upon introduction of the techniques from Spanish Florida) than the Spanish (1580), and spread far more widely as a building material, reaching at least as far north as Staten Island, New York, where it can be found in the still-standing Abraham Manee House, erected around 1670. Beaufort, South Carolina, was both the primary center for British tabby and the location of the earliest British tabby in the southeastern United States. It was here that the British tradition first developed, and from this hearth tabby eventually spread throughout the sea island district.
he labor-intensive process depended on slave labor to crush and burn the oyster shells into quicklime. The quicklime was then slaked (hydrated), combined with the shells, sand and water then poured or tamped into wood forms called cradles, built up in layers in a similar manner to rammed earth. Tabby was used as a substitute for bricks, which were rare and expensive because of the absence of local clay.
Tabby was used like concrete for floors, foundations, columns, roofs or was made into bricks or used as oyster shell mortar or burnt shell mortar.
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