The industry did not begin as a colonial relationship with the North. Trenholm) and northern acquaintances to invest and together began to resurrect the local economy through mining phosphate rocks along the Ashley River. They convinced local entrepreneurs (including Williams Middleton and F.H. Julien Ravenel) discovered that the “stinking stones” along the Ashley River could revolutionize fertilizer manufacture. After the war, Charleston’s gentlemen-scientists (Nathaniel A. This chapter describes the birth of the three industries, from the discovery of phosphate rock to the development of a viable if risky land mining business.
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