park name redcliffe plantation

SOUTH CAROLINA’S
PARK NAMEPLANTATION
REDCLIFFE
STATE PARK
HISTORIC SITE
Charles Towne
“Cotton
is King!”
Landing
State
Historic
Site
is back and
Those
words
resounded
better
than
ever. The
grand
through
Congress
and
then
opening
ofin
the
renovated
park
the
nation
a fiery
speech
by
South
Sen. James
across
theCarolina
Ashley River
from
Henry
Hammond
in thewas
years
downtown
Charleston
held
leading
up to August
the Civil17,
War.
on Thursday,
2006.
A state
park since
the site
Hammond,
also 1970,
a South
Carolina
completed
is where Governor,
a ship full of
British
his
final and
home
at Redcliffe
settlers
their
servants
Plantation
in Barbados
1859. Today
the
arrived from
and
10,000
square
established
thefoot
firstmansion,
permanent
an
iconic lane
of 145-year-old
European
colony
in the
magnolia
and two extant
Carolinas trees,
in 1670.
slave quarters are highlights of
A highlight of the 664-acre
the site. So is the view of the
park is the new Visitor Center,
Savannah River valley from the
which includes extensive
top floor of the Greek Revival
interactive exhibits describing
house, where historians say
how settlers, slaves, traders
Hammond could see the clock
and Native Americans came
tower a dozen miles away
together on this spot to forge
across the river in downtown
the beginnings of what would
Augusta.
become the plantation system
Admiring the heirloom
of the American South.
garden, walking the nature
The park also includes a
trail and picnicking on the
full-scale
trading
expansivereplica
lawn also
are ship,
protective
palisades,
and
a
favorite activities
at the
park.
garden
that
includes
crops
Redcliffe
was
donated
to South
from
thatintime,
natural
habitat
Carolina
1973a by
former
zoo, ongoing
archaeological
Time
editor John
Shaw Billings,
activity, walking of
paths
and full
great-grandson
the former
visitor amenities.
congressman
and governor.
Designation:
Charles
Towne
National
Landing State
Historic Site is located on
Register
Old
Town Road
Counties:
Aiken (S.C. 171)
near Exit 216-A off Interstate
Acreage: 369
26.
Pets: Pets are allowed in
Designation: Listed on the
most outdoor areas provided
national Register
they are kept under physical
Counties:
restraint orCharleston
on a leash not
Acreage:
longer
than
664
six feet.
Admissions:
When
& HowPark
Acquired:
admission
Received
is
free. in 1971 from the
Tricentennial
House
tours Commission
are $4/age 16+;
$2.50/SC
Pets:
PetsSenior;
are not$3/youth
allowed in
or
the park.
child
age 6-15
Park and
Tour
Facilities
Programs
and Activities:
Information:
Visit a natural habitat
Hiking
zoo that is home to animal
Interpretive Trail
species that were indigenous
Park Store/Gift Shop
to Carolina at the time of the
Picnic Area
settlement.
View a 17th century
replica ship,
Driving
Directions:
called a trading
ketch,I-20:
as itNorth
is reconstructed
From
Augusta on
site.
Watch
archaeologists
take exit 1 onto Martintownat
work
the past
Road.rediscovering
Go approximately
4 of
South
Carolina’s
miles and
turn leftbirthplace.
onto Hwy
125 S. (Atomic
Charles
TowneRd.)
Landing
to Beech
is a
“DiscoverCarolina
Island.
Turn right atSite”,
stop which
light
provides
onto
Beech
curriculum-based
Island Ave. thensocial onto
left
studies
Hwy
programs
278 at next
for stop
South
Carolina
light.
Go school
two miles
children.
then take
a
right/A
onto
Hammond Road.
Hours
dmissions
Then right onto Redcliffe Rd.
Office Hours: Daily 9am-5pm
Redcliffe is approximately 14
Days and Hours of Operation:
miles from I-20.
Daily 9am-5pm
GPS Coordinates: Long: 81° 51’
Days and Holidays Closed:
52.82”W , Lat: 33° 24’ 58.33”N
Christmas Eve/Christmas Day
Tour
and Programs
Admissions:
$5 /adult; $3.25
Information:
/S.C.
Senior; Redcliffe
$3 /youth age
Plantation is a
6-15
“DiscoverCarolina
Driving Directions: Site”,
From 1-26
which
curriculumE:
Takeprovides
Cosgrove
Road exit
based
social
studies
216A onto
Hwy.
7 (Sam Ritprograms
for
South
Carolina
tenberg Blvd.) bear left
onto
school
children.
Special
Hwy 171 (Old Town Rd.) Folinterest
programs
areTowne
also
low
signs
for Charles
offered
throughout
the
Landing. The park is onyear
the
on
topics
such
as
the
rich
left at a traffic light.
African-American history of
GPS Coordinants:
the site, heirloom gardening,
Park Facilities and Activities
the lives of children in the
19thCabins
century, and cemetery
Camping
preservation.
Picnic Area with Shelters
Hiking Trail
Fishing
Rental Fishing Boats
Equestrian Campground
Equestrian Trail
8155Redcliffe
181
Greer HWY
RD
Cleveland,
SC 29635
Beech Island,SC
29842
Phone:
(864) 836-6115
Phone: (803)
827-1473
Office Hours:
Hours: 9am-5pm
Office
11am-noon
Park Hours:
Hours: Grounds:
M-Su 9am-6pm
Park
Th-M
(extended (extended
to 9pm during
9am-5pm
to 6pm
Daylight
SavingsSavings
Time)
during
Daylight
Time)
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