这曾经是一个农业区，我们已经知道，现在主演讲厅所在的地方曾经有建于18世纪晚期的农舍和谷仓。

This used to be an agricultural area and we already know that where the main lecture hall now stands, there once were farm house and barn that were erected in the late 1700s.

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19世纪晚期，为了向这一地区的伐木场和棉花厂提供动力，这条小河上曾筑起一道水坝。

The creek was dammed in the late 19th century to provide power to the area's lumber and cotton mills.

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在1970年代的晚期，卢卡斯和其他人在位于查尔斯顿县东部的一个堤礁岛——棕榈岛上开始大规模的住宅区开发活动。

In the late 1970's, Lucas and others began extensive residential development of the Isle of Palms, a barrier island situated eastward of the city of Charleston.

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