Magnolia Plantation

Listed on the National Register of Historical Places,
stately Magnolia Plantation has been the original ancestral ancestral home of the Drayton family since 1676. 


Magnolia is also the oldest plantation on the Ashley River and a centerpiece of Charleston history.  It played important roles in the colonial settlement, the Revolutionary War and the Civil War.

Jackie really wanted to visit a plantation.  We tried to find one in Savannah, but we were told we didn't remember our Civil War history.  That Sherman had burned all the plantations, so we went to Charleston to see a plantation.

Bob waiting on the front porch for the inside house tour to begin.  No pictures were allowed in the house.

Next we toured the gardens, to me the best part of this plantation.   

Here are too close ups of beautiful blooms.

There was a Japanese section with a beautiful pond and a Japanese bridge.

We also saw the bluest, Blue Heron, I've ever seen.

Behind the plantation runs the Ashley River.  It gave the plantation direct water transportation to the Port of Charleston.

They had examples of types of things that would be sent down the river.  In these pictures are rice and bales of cotton.

Down by the river, on the grounds at the back of the plantations were artists painting.