Historic Sites at Heritage Golf Club in Pawley's Island SC

Recently played some golf in the Myrtle Beach SC area and one day the group played the Heritage Club in Pawley's Island, just south of Myrtle Beach.  Beautiful golf course which had holes meandering thru low lying swamps and marshland.  The clubhouse was built to resemble an antebellum plantation house with Georgian and Greek revival architecture.  On one of the last holes on the front nine there was an old graveyard next to the tee box which had an historic marker erected.  It indicated the area was part of the True Blue rice plantation belonging to the Pawleys in the 18th and 19th centuries from when the graveyard dated.  The sign went on to say that South Carolina produced two thirds of the rice for North America and that these plantations were home to the wealthy "rice princes" prior to the War Between the States.  Adjacent to the eighth hole tee box was another historic sign indicating the fenced area immediately in front of the tee box was a former slave graveyard that was used from the early 18th century into the 20th century.  The sign provided information about the artifacts discovered there and the slave's African burial customs.  A surprise historic departure from a round of golf in bustling Myrtle Beach.