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The Elms, an inland rice plantation on the headwaters of Goose Creek, was owned by the Izard family for more than 150 years. In 1704 Ralph Izard, a member of the Commons House of Assembly, bought a 250-acre tract here and expanded it to more than 500 acres. His son Ralph II, who also served in the Assembly and on the Royal Council, was the first to plant rice there and enlarged it to more than 2,700 acres. Ralph Izard III, born in 1742, lent money to the Patriot cause and later served in the Continental Congress. After the war he was a state representative and then a U.S. Senator, briefly serving as President Pro Tempore of the Senate. In 1818 a visitor described its avenue of lofty elms and loftier live oaks. Its circa 1718 house, later rebuilt after a fire, was virtually destroyed by the Charleston earthquake of 1886.
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