The Island Packet (South Carolina) reports:
Henry E. Ingram Jr. … promised to keep Yankees out of Delta Plantation in Jasper County when he bought 1,700 acres there in 1998 [by placing restrictive covenants on the part of the land that he had sold, and that purported to restrict the resale of that land]….
[Here are] the covenants, or rules, that Ingram demanded of buyers:
1. They could not be Yankees.
2. They could not have the last name Sherman (an obvious reference to Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman).
3. And the land could not be sold or leased to those whose last names could be rearranged to spell Sherman….
Now, however, [a buyer] and Bluffton Home Builders are working with Ingram’s son, Ashley Ingram, to remove the covenants….
Thanks to Never Yet Melted for the pointer.