Tag: John Grimke Drayton

• Magnolia Plantation

  6 May 2025 On our second full day in Charleston, we set out for Magnolia Plantation and Gardens, a 30-minute drive northwest from the Charleston Visitors Center to the 390 acres of the original 1,872 along the Ashley River.  One of the oldest in the South, the plantation dates to 1679, when Thomas and Ann…

  georgeannmurphy

  May 14, 2025

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  charleston, Eliza Lucas Pinckney, indigo, John Grimke Drayton, Johnnie Leach, Joseph P. Riley Jr. Park, Magnolia Plantation, RiverDogs, slave cabins, slavery, Slavery to Freedom Cabin Tour, south-carolina