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Pleasures, products and profits from the ‘Vine’
By Harvey S. Teal Provided by the Kershaw County Historical Society
Posted: February 1, 2013 4:30 p.m.
Updated: February 4, 2013 5:00 a.m.
  “When the first European explorers cast eyes on the strange shores of North America, they saw a plentitude of native grapes.” So wrote viticulture authority University of South Carolina professor Dr. George S. Shields. In September 1683, 13 years after the English settled at Charles Town, one Louis Thibou observed in a letter, “The native vines also produce very good grapes but the pity of it is they produce too much wood ...

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