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Trunk Gate
Rob [The Journalist] paddles past a modern version of an ancient water gate. Trunk gates like this open and close with tides and spring freshets to let water in and out of impoundments such as rice fields and duck ponds.
The plantations along Cuckolds Creek and the Lower Combahee River were mostly producers of rice and fields hand dug and gates hand built by slaves.
Now, the modern rice fields are mostly managed areas for wildlife.
Trunk Gate
Rob [The Journalist] paddles past a modern version of an ancient water gate. Trunk gates like this open and close with tides and spring freshets to let water in and out of impoundments such as rice fields and duck ponds.
The plantations along Cuckolds Creek and the Lower Combahee River were mostly producers of rice and fields hand dug and gates hand built by slaves.
Now, the modern rice fields are mostly managed areas for wildlife.