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Preservation, Trish Smith

I recently found a photo from the day my graduate school cohort first visited Drayton Hall. In this 2009 photograph, I’m seated on the portico with my classmates listening to…

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Amber Satterthwaite, Drayton Diaries, Trivia

How important was music to the family of Charles Drayton I? Charles’s diaries reveal that music and dance were significant in the Draytons’ social lives and also played important roles…

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Archaeology, General, History, Luke Pecoraro, Research

Recently, our archaeologists made an exciting discovery in our current excavation!  We were able to connect this medicine bottle to a local pharmacy dating to 1875-1901.  The bottle is associated…

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Collections, Event, General, Press

      Press contact: Patty Sailer, Communications & Marketing Manager, Drayton Hall Preservation Trust Credit in the name of ©MCG Photography shall not accompany work when reproduced for personal…

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Landscape, Trivia

At least 13 enslaved men performed those essential tasks: Abraham, Arakias, Azactrias, Ben, Billy, Cimon and his son, George, John, Michael, Quash (foreman), Quash, Sam, Toby, and Tuite.

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Event

Join us on Thursday, April 27, 2023, at 5 pm as we discuss Lindy Keane Carter’s book The Rice Birds.  About the book: In 1849, twin sisters fleeing Ireland’s famine…

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