On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 23:01:29 -0700, U.S. Janet B. >
wrote:

>On Tue, 27 Feb 2018 00:23:16 -0500, jmcquown >
>wrote:
>
>>On 2/26/2018 1:06 PM, U.S. Janet B. wrote:
>>> On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 09:01:26 -0500, jmcquown >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2/26/2018 8:20 AM, U.S. Janet B. wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 07:49:29 -0500, jmcquown >
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2/25/2018 6:04 PM, U.S. Janet B. wrote:
>>>>>>> On Sun, 25 Feb 2018 21:38:47 -0000, "Ophelia" >
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> that's the one Do you know the origin of 'Frogmore?' I've never
>>>>>>>>> heard the term before that I remember.
>>>>>>>>> Janet US
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> LOL Frogmore is the name of a community (can't rightly call it a town,
>>>>>>>> it's very small!) on Saint Helena Island which, after the Civil War was
>>>>>>>> named Frogmore after one of the plantations. When my parents first
>>>>>>>> built the house here in 1986 their mailing address was Frogmore. It was
>>>>>>>> later changed by the post office back to the original name the Spanish
>>>>>>>> gave it in the 17th century.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I gather the recipe for the "boil" originated with slaves and former
>>>>>>>> slaves using local seafood, homemade sausage and vegetables from the garden.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Jill
>>>>>>>> ==
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Frogmore here is an estate where Queen Victoria and Prince Albert are
>>>>>>>> buried
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I wonder if there is a connection. Many places in the US are named
>>>>>>> for places in Europe. Check it out, Jill.
>>>>>>> Janet US
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Aha! The plantation was named by a John Grayson after his ancestral
>>>>>> estate in England.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Jill
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you. You get an A+ on your report ;-)
>>>>> Janet US
>>>>>
>>>> Yay! I get a gold star. Other owners were also English.
>>>> Lieutenant Governor William Bull acquired the land in the 1700's. He
>>>> sold it to John and Elizabeth Stapleton, who built the "manor house" in
>>>> 1810. The property was later acquired by Thomas Aston Coffin (whose
>>>> family owned several other plantations in the area). When the Civil War
>>>> broke out they fled in advance of Union soldiers, abandoning all their
>>>> holdings in Beaufort County. Somehow a couple of missionary women from
>>>> "up north" acquired the property in 1868.
>>>>
>>>> Heck, Dataw was an indigo plantation. The ruins of one of the old tabby
>>>> manor houses (the property was owned by two brothers who were members of
>>>> the Sams family) and the outbuildings are still here. One brother made
>>>> a bad choice and built his tabby mansion on the other side of Dataw on
>>>> the water. Those ruins have been reclaimed by the sea.
>>>>
>>>> Jill
>>>
>>> tabby = oyster shells?
>>> Janet US
>>>
>>Yes, tabby construction = oyster shells, sand and lime. The basic
>>ingredients in very old fashioned cement. They used the materials
>>available locally. That also dates back to the Spanish, Saint
>>Augustine, Florida.
>>
>>Jill
>
>This oyster shell thing has tickled my brain now about a movie with
>maybe Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie where there is something
>about oyster shells being used for railroad beds at the turn of the
>century? What the heck was the name of that thing?
>Arggh!
>Janet US

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