VARNVILLE — Jake Gohagan gazed over the front porch of his family’s 208 acres. Dusk turned to dark and rain poured, just out of reach from the carpenter bee traps protecting the sanded hardwood pine planks.

Gohagan, 34, lives in nearby Hampton but spends his spare time tending to the land in his lineage for more than a century. He wished for dry weather so he could show the cemetery predating the Civil War or the heritage pecan orchard on the property.

Even more, he fears that the cornerstone of his family’s legacy is under siege.

Gohagan is one of the Lowcountry residents who learned about an incoming, major gas pipeline planned under their feet. He received a letter from an affiliate of Texas energy titan Kinder Morgan Inc. asking his permission for surveyors to canvass his family’s p

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