Pawley’s Island, located about 1/2 mile east, was used by plantation householders who lived on the seashore from May to November to escape malaria, or “summer fever.” A number of houses built about 1850, and the summer academy and rectory of All Saints’ Parish remain, while the hurricane of 1822 destroyed most earlier homes. Waccamaw Neck is a narrow strip of land from the Atlantic Ocean to the Waccamaw River where rice plantations flourished by 1740. Remaining there are c. 1790 houses, Litchfield and Prospect Hill, and one slave chapel. All Saints Parish was established in 1767, the area furnished salt for the Revolutionary War, and visitors included Lafayette in 1777, Washington in 1791, J. Monroe in 1819, Churchill in 1932, and F. Roosevelt in 1944.