The recently refurbished (2018) Rice Canal Club spans a mid-eighteenth century rice canal, a relic from the days in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries when rice was grown on Belle Isle Plantation. Enslaved persons from Africa brought knowledge of how to grow this new crop. Their skills and labor, performed under very difficult conditions and for long days, directly contributed to the meteoric growth of Georgetown County into one of the wealthiest places in North America until the Civil War. The name and placement of this amenity reflects on enslaved Africans' contributions which enabled wealth development in pre-Civil War South Carolina, and with a full spectrum of their adapted culture as integral enrichment in the low-country lifestyle we enjoy today.
Residents have full access to this facility by reservation.