Let's visit Legare Waring plantation

The gates to the old sea island cotton plantation. Let's go in, shall we?

Originally, the Horry-Lucas house was here, and it was built around 1775 .Jonathan Lucas mostly lived in downtown Charleston, but he visited here frequently. He developed machines that milled rice, so it didn't have to be done by hand anymore, a long and very tedious process. The machine was powered by water, and much later on, his son invented ones that were powered on steam. He died in 1848 and the house  burned down in the Civil war.
**************************************** I went looking for his downtown Charleston home and here are the pictures:

It's a big old elegant Federal style one, isn't it? It stayed in the family until 1867 and was later part of the City Hospital, as well as an infirmary and later a home for nurses.
The house is surrounded by our big tall hospital buildings now, but this is how it looked back in the old days:

Historic Charleston Foundation photo

I have not been into this building, I think there may be a museum in there now?--and there used to be big beautiful gardens on both sides outside, and a beautiful swooping staircase in the front inside.

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The house that is here now was originally the overseer's cottage. They think it was built around 1840 and the Legare family when Julia Graves gave it to her daughter Katherine as she married Edward T. Legare.

my blue bouquet I made

All the land here was part of the original first permanent settlement in South Carolina, called Charles Towne, as English settlers came here in 1670. This place was one of the first major ports in the New World.
This was the birthplace of the Southern plantation system where various crops such as cotton, rice, and indigo were grown with slave labor and made people extremely wealthy.

Little Red Riding Hood, ha ha LOL

(below) Pieces of history:

Along with the pretty Avenue of Oaks and the old Legare-Waring home here, there are also many trails, gardens full of camellias, magnolias and azaleas, swamp hibiscus, picnic areas, bikes to rent, and a replica of an old 17th century ship, and lots of wildlife to see, such as this ahinga bird I saw perched on a branch and drying it's wings. There are also cannon and musket demonstrations and interpreters in costumes.

There are also grey foxes here, pelicans, snowy egrets, great egrets, deer, blue herons, skunks, squirrels, turtles, alligators,  raccoons,hawks, etc.In the old times, there were elk, black bears, even big bison!

I hope you enjoyed visiting this old plantation with us today!