Hampton Plantation - Low Country South Carolina

[rpcrowe]

The Hampton Plantation is a Colonial Era Plantation about 40-miles north of the City of Charleston, South Carolina. It produced the typical low country crop; Carolina Gold Rice. The the exterior of plantation has been fairly well restored but, the interior is not that well restored.





Typical of plantation houses of that era, the kitchen or cooking shed is a separate building, due to the high probability of fire. Hampton's cooking shed is unique in that it has an indoor well from which to draw kitchen water.



Hampton is surrounded by live oak and magnolia trees.



The fragnance of the magnolia blossoms is lovely...



Hampton inspired the works of a South Carolina poet laureate, Archibald Rutledge, who lived here and gave it to the people of South Carolina as a legacy. The site is a National Historic Landmark. As with all southern plantations, this was built on the profits from slave labor.

http://discoversouthcarolina.com/art...ton-plantation

[Shadowman]

Nice captures.