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Audubon Swamp Garden is a 60-acre (24 ha) cypress and tupelo swamp on the grounds of Magnolia Plantation near Charleston, South Carolina, United States. At one time, the swamp served as a reservoir for the plantation's rice cultivation.
Another visitor to Magnolia in this period was John James Audubon, for whom Magnolia's Audubon Swamp Garden is named. The plantation house was burned during the Civil War, likely by Union troops, as was neighboring Runnymede Plantation to the northwest. In the aftermath of the Civil War and postwar economic disruption, John Grimké Drayton sold ...
Silver Bluff Audubon Center and Sanctuary: Jackson: Aiken: Augusta area: website, 3,154 acres, operated by the National Audubon Society: South Carolina Botanical Garden: Clemson: Pickens: Upcountry: 295 acres, includes gardens, 70 acre arboretum, Hanson Nature Learning Center, Bob Campbell Geology Museum and art exhibits Table Rock State Park ...
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of South Carolina that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
Visitors read some of the names on Allées Gwendolyn Midlo Hall at the Whitney Plantation. The memorial is dedicated to the 107,000 people who were enslaved in Louisiana from 1719 to 1820.
John Grimké Drayton (May 1, 1816 – April 2, 1891) was a nineteenth-century planter and priest in Charleston, South Carolina.He was a horticulturalist at Magnolia Plantation and Gardens on the Ashley River and an Episcopal priest who served nearby Old St. Andrew's Parish Church for forty years.
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