Timeline

Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
1787/00/00 John Bowman hires Jonathan Lucas to build a water mill for pounding rice at Peachtree Plantation. As the first water powered rice mill in the world, it will revolutionized rice production. Inventor Peachtree Plantation Francis Marion and Sumter National Forests Rice
1801/00/00 Jonathan Lucas erects the first toll rice mill at Middleburg, his mother's plantation on Cooper River. Lucas will install the first brushing screen in his mill in 1803. Work Middleburg Plantation Huger Rice
1803/12/00 Jonathan Lucas buys a lot on Boundary Street (now Calhoun). A Federal mansion will be built for him by 1809, when he is listed in the city directory. The house is used as the main family residence and headquarters for a rice and lumber mills companies. Owner Jonathan Lucas House Charleston, SC
1808/00/00 Jonathan Lucas receives a United States patent from for a conical cylinder rice husking machine. Inventor Rice
1817/00/00 John L Norton and Jonathan Lucas install steam power on a rice mill located on Lucas (now Barre) Street, just north of the Lucas House. Work Jonathan Lucas House Charleston, SC Rice
1819/00/00 Jonathan Lucas earns an American patent for husking and rice cleaning machine. Inventor Rice
1822/00/00 Jonathan Lucas Jr travels to England at the invitation of the British government to develop his rice milling process there. Work Jonathan Lucas House Charleston, SC Rice
1827/00/00 Jonathan Lucas and his son-in-law, Henry Ewbank, receive a British patent for a conical cylinder rice cleaning machine. Inventor Rice
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