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of yon modern niiill men can jndge whether tliis is possible 

 from yonr experience. Now somewliere abont 1780 Dr. 

 John B. Lynch had Mr. Jonathan Lncas to pnt npon Marsli 

 Island, opposite Cape Romaine Lighthouse, a brick wind- 

 mill, which for years sawed all. the lumber that was floated 

 to it from the adjacent mainland and no doubt furnished the 

 lumber from which many of our old houses were construct- 

 ed. The tower was, I suppose, near the proportion of the 

 old lighthouse, and stood until after our war. It was in 

 operation as late as 1789, for Mr, Wml. Lucas, father of Mr. 

 Alex. Lucas, was born there in that year. 



Lumber, too, was brought from Charleston after mills 

 went into operation there. These mills were equipi)ed with 

 what we call gang saws, running uj) and down. 



This Dr. LyncJi was an eccentric character, lived at 

 Peachtree until he moved to Tennessee, leaving all his 

 landed property behind him. He it was who spent the 

 Summer at Raccoon Keys and built his house in a fiat, so 

 if a storm came, he would float ashore. He buried his 

 daughter on l*eatield by standing coft'in on end and bank- 

 ing up dirt around it, a tree now grows out of the top of 

 the grave. Eccentric as he was, he was enterprising, as 

 evinced by his building of this saw and pounding mill. 

 Where the bricks in the early days of the Parish came from 

 we do not know, for I can find no record of a brick kiln 

 here, unless they were brought from Charleston or George 

 town ; at latter place the Messrs. Withers had a brick mak- 

 ing plant, where depot noAV stands, at a very early time. 

 The lime we knowi was made from shells of the oysters, 

 which abounds along the coast, for oni nearly every bluff" 

 contiguous to the creeks are the remains of lime kilns; and 

 as late as 1800, Mr. A. J. McClellan used to burn lime for 

 sale at what we used to call ''Big Landing," in McClellan- 

 ville, where Mr. L. P. McClellan 's house now stands, and 

 my aunts, the Misses Doar, did the same thing at Walnut 

 Grove. A fine tabby work was made from this lime mixed 

 with small shells, which j-itands the test of time remarka- 

 bly well; specimens of this work can now be seen in sur- 

 rounding country. 



